Question

I have a UITableView consisting of three rows – each row is a data field in a settings screen. When the user clicks a row, I have a UIPickerView appear for them to select a value. I am using the UITableViewCellStyleValue1 – the left side is the name of the data field, and the right side (detailTextLabel) should be the value selected from the picker.

I created a targetCell ivar to hold the selected cell. In my picker, I use the below code in the didSelectRow method:

    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.text = @"TEST";

Which works, however I have several presentational issues. The first was that the detailTextLabel text was white (although API says it should be blue??!?) I fixed this with:

    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];

However, the text does not appear in the cell until I click the cell or another cell. So I tried adding a
[self.tableView reloadData];
Which does the trick of refreshing the cell and getting the label text to appear, but also removes the blue highlighting which I want to maintain.

If you could look over this code and let me know the easiest way to get the below results when selecting a value on the picker:

• cell detailTextLabel.text immediately updates to the selected
  value in black color
• the blue highlight on the active cell is maintained

Thanks!

- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow: (NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component { 
    // Handle the selection 
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.text = @"TEST";
    [self.tableView reloadData];
} 

Edited to add final code soluton:

Thanks to chown for the answer – my final working code is:

- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow: (NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component { 
    // Handle the selection 
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.text = @"TEST";
    NSIndexPath *path = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
    [self.tableView reloadData];
    [self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:path.row inSection:0] animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
} 

Answer 1

Try this:

- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow: (NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component { 
    // Handle the selection 
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    self.targetCell.detailTextLabel.text = @"TEST";
    [self.tableView reloadData];
    NSIndexPath *ip = [tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

    // assuming self is the tableViews delegate.  Optional
    [self tableView:tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:ip];

    [tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:ip animated:YES scrollPosition:UITableScrollPositionTop];

    // assuming self is the tableViews delegate.  Optional
    [self tableView:tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:ip];
}