Question

I have a UITextField in a custom tableview cell. On tapping the textfield area I display a popover which contains a pickerview. I need to set the selection from the pickerview to the textfield’s text. I show the popover from the textDidBeginEditing method. How do I pass the selection from the pickerView’s didSelect method to the textfield?

By design the entire thing is in a TableViewController with the textfield and pickerview delegate methods implemented.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Just set the UIPickerView’s delegate to be the viewcontroller that has your UITableView. That way on the UIPickerView’s didSelect (implemented in the tableview’s viewcontroller) you would simply use the pickerview’s datasource to populate the textfield.

To get your custom cell from a tableview you simply do:

CustomTableViewCell *thisCell = (CustomTableViewCell*)[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:row inSection:section]];

Then you set the textfield in that to have whatever text you want:

thisCell.textField.text = @"text";