UISearchBar in a UITableView

Question

I\'m trying to mimic the behaviour of a table view similar to the iPod app for Artists - it\'s a sectioned table view with a section index on the right, with a search bar at the

Answer 1

Answered my own question, but might be helpful to other beginners:

• Put the search bar in the table view header when view loads, scroll contentOffset down the height of this search bar (typically 44 pixels), but easy to check dynamically
• Add a search icon in the section index with "{search}"
• Make the sectionIndexSection for the search -1
• When handling section index touches use the 'special' index value for search "-1" (to scroll the contentOffset back to (0, 0)

Update: use the string constant UITableViewIndexSearch string in place of the undocumented string "{search}" - i.e. return it as one of the array items when implementing:

- (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView

in UITableViewDataSource.

Answer 2

Put the search Controller in the beginning of the tableView and try this:

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView sectionForSectionIndexTitle:(NSString *)title atIndex:(NSInteger)index {
    if (index==0){
        [tableView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1) animated:NO];
        return -1;
    }
...
}


- (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
        NSMutableArray * retValue =[NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[YOUR ARRAY]];
        [retValue insertObject:UITableViewIndexSearch atIndex:0];
       return retValue;
 }