Question

In a UITableView, I would like to be able to edit the cell.textLabel.text property of the row, when such row is touched.

In other terms, I would like to be able to edit the row directly touching it, instead of entering into edit mode.

How can I implement this?

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    CMTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[CMTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }

    int tagsCount = [[currentComic Tags] count];

    [[cell textField] setTag:[indexPath row]];
    [[cell textField] setText:[tagsDisplayName objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]]];

    return cell;
}

And this is the subclass CMTableViewCell:

...

-(void)viewDidLoad
{    
    textField = [[UITextField alloc] init];
    [textField setFrame:CGRectMake(5,5,50,400)];
    [self addSubview:textField];
}

Answer 1

Add UITextField without borders as subview. Before adding it to subview – set Tag nubmer to UITextField from indexPath.row at tableview cellForRowAtIndexPath method. When user entered data – save it with UITextFieldDelegate methods when “Return” button was pressed. Unfortunately I can’t give you code, because right now I’m on Windows. Home this will help

UPDATE: Tag number needed to change data in your DataSource. When you pressed “Return” button in your UITextField, you can save changed by getting UITableViewCell by this tag number from UITextField.