Question

I was wondering if I can store a data object in a certain tag associated with a tableViewCell, for ease of access to the data associated logically to that cell.

So is there a property to store the data object in? for a TableViewCell?

Thanks

Answer 1

The tag on a UITableViewCell (and on many other Cocoa classes) stores only an integer. You could use it to store some predefined constant, e.g.

myCell.tag = TAG_CELL_HEADER;

or you could use a numbering scheme to save the model ID that corresponds to the cell, e.g.

myCell.tag = TAG_RECORD_OFFSET + record.rowid;

In general, you can keep an array of data and use the tag as an index into it.