This is a personal preference on how I like to handle situations like these, but I would first subclass UITableViewCell because your table cells do not look like a default iOS UITableViewCell. Basically you have a custom set up, so you need a custom class.
From there you should set up your 4 IBActions in your header file
- (IBAction)touchFirstButton;
- (IBAction)touchSecondButton;
- (IBAction)touchThirdButton;
- (IBAction)touchFourthButton;
You do not need to pass a sender in these actions, because you will not be using that object in these methods. They are being created to forward the call.
After that set up a protocol for your UITableViewSubClass
@protocol UITableViewSubClassDelegate;
Remember to put that outside and before the @interface declaration
Give your sell a delegate property
@property (nonatomic, strong) id<UITableViewSubClassDelegate> delegate;
and finally define your actual protocol, you will need to set up 4 methods, 1 for each button and take your subclass as a parameter
@protocol UITableViewSubClassDelegate <NSObject>
- (void)forwardedFirstButtonWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell;
- (void)forwardedSecondButtonWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell;
- (void)forwardedThirdButtonWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell;
- (void)forwardedFourthButtonWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell;
@end
This will be placed outside of the @interface @end section at the bottom
After that create a configureWithModel: method in your @interface and @implementation as well as a property for your model
@interface:
@property (nonatomic, strong) Model *model;
- (void)configureWithModal:(Model*)model;
@implementation:
- (void)configureWithModal:(Model*)model {
self.model = model;
// custom UI set up
}
From here you should configure your action methods in your @implementation file to call the delegate methods, i'm only showing the first one, but you would do this with all of the IBActions
- (void)configureWithModal:(Model*)model {
[self.delegate forwardFirstButtonWithCell:self];
}
From here your custom cell set up is done and we need to go back to the UIViewController that is displaying the UITableView. First go into the header file of the view controller, and import your custom UITableViewCellSubClass and then setup the class to implement this protocol.
It should look something like this
@interface MYViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewSubClassDelegate>
from there you should go into your cellForRowAtIndexPath: method and configure your custom UITableViewCell
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCellSubClass *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"CellIdentifier"];
cell.delegate = self;
Model *cellModel = self.tableData[indexPath.row];
[cell configureWithModel:cellModel];
return cell;
}
Now go into your cell class and copy paste all of the protocol methods into your viewController class. I will display one as an example.
In your UIViewController:
- (void)forwardedFirstButtonWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell {
Model *cellModel = cell.model;
// do stuff with model from outside of the cell
}
do that for all methods and you should be good.
Remember to have all your #imports in so there's no forward declarations and remember to link up the IBActions to your storyboard or xib files. If you want a custom xib for your table cell you will have to check if the cell is nil and then allocate a new one, but if you are using prototype cells then this should be sufficient.
For simplicity sakes i put forwardFirstButtonWithCell: but i would encourage making the name something that describes what it's doing such as, displayPopOverToEnterData or something similar. From there you could even change the parameters of the delegate protocol methods to take models instead so instead of
- (void) displayPopOverToEnterDataWithCell:(UITableViewSubClass*)cell;
make it
- (void) displayPopOverToEnterDataWithModel:(Model*)model;
but, i don't know what type of information you need to access from the cell. So update these methods as you see fit.
