email tableView text

Question

i know how to add in app email, but i dont know how to email the text of my table view. I do, but my problem is that when the user adds a cell to the table, how do i get that to print out too? to print out the text normally i would use

string = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"%@ \n %@ \n %@",[array objectAtIndex:0], 
                                                           [array objectAtIndex:1], 
                                                           [array objectAtIndex:2]];

and i set the email Body to string. Does anyone know how to make it to where if a new cell is added, i can get it to be added to the email body as well??

Thanks

So you want to print(or email) the text of the cell if the user taps the cell? — Mat, Jul 15 '11 at 16:39
yeah i want to add the tableViews text or cell's text to the email's body! — kurt moyer, Jul 15 '11 at 17:01

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '11 at 16:39

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I'm not 100% sure I understand your problem but here goes . . .

You can make your code deal with more than a fixed number of items like this :

string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@" \n "];

If array is also the data source for your table view then string should then contain all the table cells with a break between them.

You can only update the body of your email in an MFMailComposeViewController before you have shown the email view to the user - once it's been displayed then it's read only :(

answered Jul 15 '11 at 16:39

deanWombourne

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ok this works perfect!! but i have a plist that populates the table and i stored the contents of the plist into an array called "cells" so i said: string = [cells components...]; and it prints out some extra stuff like keys in my plist? do you know how to fix this? – kurt moyer Jul 15 '11 at 17:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '11 at 16:43

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I assume here that your array is populated with string objects.

Compose the string:

NSString *theMessage = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ \n %@ \n %@,", [array objectAtIndex:0], [array objectAtIndex:1], [array objectAtIndex:2]];

Now, assuming you also have an instance of MailViewController, instantiated as mailViewController, write this code in for the body:

[mailViewController setMessageBody:theMessage isHTML:NO];

answered Jul 15 '11 at 16:43

ArtSabintsev

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Thought I'm not sure I understand your problem. – ArtSabintsev Jul 15 '11 at 16:45
yes this is what i had but my users can add cells and i wanted that text to be printed out too and it works with string = [cells components...]; thanks a lot though! :D – kurt moyer Jul 15 '11 at 16:53
No problem - glad you got it working in a different way. Mind dropping some sample code in here - I may need to implement something similar very soon. – ArtSabintsev Jul 15 '11 at 17:01
Yeah well good luck! if u need any help with implementing the email view then let me know i have the code all written out! :D – kurt moyer Jul 15 '11 at 17:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 15 '11 at 17:56

First populate the UItableView formatting the strings with the methods indicated over, then in your:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath:

UITableViewCell *cellView = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:indexPath.row inSection:0]];//Section 0  
NSString *string=cellView.textLabel.text;
//compose email body with string

Hope this helps.

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