Question

I have a UITableView and I want to be able to reorder the rows when I’m not in edit mode, meaning I don’t want to see the delete icons until I press Edit. I want to be able to see and use the reordering controls all the time. Is that possible?

Do I have to keep the UITableView in editing mode all the time and enable/disable the delete icon manually? How to disable the swipe to delete in that case?

Answer 1

As far as I’m aware you can’t do it using just the editing flag. However, it’s not hard to achieve a similar effect.

Have your own boolean ie deleting. Set the tableview cell to cell.showsReorderControl = YES.
Then implement all the methods required for moving cells. The bit of code I think you’re looking for is.
– tableView:editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:
if deleting == YES return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete otherwise return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone.
Finally, set tableView.editing = YES always. If before and after changing the deleting bool you run [tableView beginUpdates] and [tableView endUpdates] everything should work fine. Let me know if this doesn’t make sense, and I’ll try again.