Question

I have a UITableView which is added to a view as a subview. When selecting a row a new view will be present with pushViewController: and the user has the option to push a Back-button to go back to the UITableView but then the cell is still selected.

Is there a way to deselect this when the view appears?

I have read that I should use the following code but I can’t get it working. No errors, no warnings, no nothing.

[tableProgram deselectRowAtIndexPath:[tableProgram indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:NO];

Answer 1

You should deselect the row in the didSelectRowAtIndextPath method of the delegate of your UITableView. It should look something like this.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];

    /* initialize your view controller here v and then push it */
    SomeViewController *v = [[[SomeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:v animated:YES];
}

Dot confuse it with didDeselectRowAtIndextPath method – it happens as people do not pay much attention when selecting methods from intelisense.