Changing between UITableViewCells in UITableView

Question

I am new to UITableViews, and I dont know very much about this topic.

I have two buttons in the same View, but not in the Table, for control the switch between the UITableViewCells, when one button is pressed then set a boolean for load the specific Cell.

• If you click the button 1 then it shows the table with the CellType1.
• If you click the button 2 then it shows the table with the CellType2.

My goal is use the same Table for this. But I dont know where to start.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *simpleTableIdentifier = @"SimpleTableItem";
if (clickButton1 == true)
    {
        clickButton1 *cell = (clickButton1*)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
        if (cell == nil) {
            //cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
            NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CellType1" owner:self options:nil];
            cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
        }
        cell.name.text =  @"Trial";
        return cell;
    }
    else if (clickButton2 == true)
    {
        clickButton2 *cell = (clickButton2*)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
        if (cell == nil) {
            //cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
            NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CellType2" owner:self options:nil];
            cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
        }
        //cell.name.text =  @"Trial";
        return cell;
    } else

I think that this code is not the best. But I am lost at this point. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

using a tutorial example like this...

//3</pre>
-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section        {
return [self.tweetsArray count];
}

//4
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
 //5
 static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"SettingsCell";

 UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
//6
NSString *tweet = [self.tweetsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
//7
[cell.textLabel setText:tweet];
[cell.detailTextLabel setText:@"via Codigator"];
return cell;
}

if you have two arrays for items such as self.tweetArray1 and self.tweetArray2 you could change this code to

//3</pre>
-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section      {

int i = buttonNumberClicked;
return [self.tweetsArray[i] count];
}

  //4
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:   (NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
//5

int i = buttonNumberClicked;

static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"SettingsCell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
//6
NSString *tweet = [self.tweetsArray[i] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
//7
[cell.textLabel setText:tweet];
[cell.detailTextLabel setText:@"via Codigator"];
return cell;
}

and set up ibactions for your buttons to change the variable/int buttonNumberClicked to 1 or 2 depending on which was pressed and [tableView reloadData]; inside ibaction as well, hope this helps.