Question

I have been using the default colors Grey and Blue for cell selection, but I would like to try a bright orange, however I am not sure how to do custom UITableview selections.

this is the code I am using at the moment..

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray;

I have also tried

[cell setSelectionStyle:[UIColor orangeColor]];

but I get a warning saying setSelectionStyle is not an integer something.

Answer 1

You’re getting that error because the program is expecting a UITableViewCellSelectionStyle where you have given it a UIColor. I don’t know if there is way to do this programatically, but you could try and use the cell’s selectedBackgroundView property to use your own image:

cell.selectedBackgroundView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImageHere.png"]] autorelease];

This would go in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method.