Question

I know its possible to create a table that has an index on the side and a search bar at the top that a user can type in to find an item, but is it possible to say to the table if array isEqual to “item1” push view1? I would like to push a different view with each cell. Anyone have any advice?

Answer 1

Create the cell based on the index path. If you create all the cells ahead of time, store them in an array by row index. If you are creating them as needed, do something like this:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    UITableViewCell *result;
    switch ( [indexPath row] ) {
    default: result = [self tableView:tableView normalCellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; break;
    case 3: result = [self tableView:tableView detail3CellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; break;
    case 5: result = [self tableView:tableView detail5CellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; break;
    }
    return result;
}