Calling action in TableView.m from customCell button - ios

Question

I have a UIViewController with a tableView in it with CustomCells, the CustomCell load a PLAY Button for some of the cells, this button are generated within the CustomCell.m
- (UIButton *)videoButton {
if (!videoButton) {
videoButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
videoButton.frame = CGRectMake(120, 319, 50, 30);
[videoButton setTitle:#"Play" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[videoButton addTarget:self action:#selector(PlayClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
videoButton.backgroundColor= [UIColor clearColor];
[self.contentView addSubview:videoButton];
}
playIMG.hidden = false;
return videoButton;
}
- (IBAction)PlayClicked:(id)sender {
TableView *tvvc = [[TableView alloc] init];
[tvvc PlayBtnClicked:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [sender tag]]];
}
in my TableView.m
- (IBAction)PlayBtnClicked:(id)sender {
NSString *tag = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", sender]; //OK
int tagNumber = [tag intValue]; //OK
NSString *Media = [arrayID objectAtIndex:tagNumber]; //Not Getting Result !
NSLog(#"%#", arrayID); //Array is empty when logging it from this action
}
arrayID is NSMutableArray
arrayID = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[arrayID addObject#"123"];
[arrayID addObject#"321"];
[arrayID addObject#"231"];
soo i checked the array by adding an action button in my TableView to log the array and its not empty.
how can i fix the empty array which is actually not empty ?

Answer 1

I solved the problem in much easier way than the delegate thing
removed
[videoButton addTarget:self action:#selector(PlayClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
and the action in the custom cell .m file
- (IBAction)PlayClicked:(id)sender {
TableView *tvvc = [[TableView alloc] init];
[tvvc PlayBtnClicked:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [sender tag]]];
}
in the tableView.m i added edited the action i want to link to this
- (IBAction)PlayBtnClicked:(UIButton*)button {
NSLog(#"Button Clicked Tag: %d", button.tag);
}
and in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method i added the action to the button in the custom cell
if ([MediaType isEqualToString:#"video"]) {
cell.videoButton.hidden = NO;
cell.videoButton.tag = indexPath.row;
[cell.videoButton addTarget:self action:#selector(PlayBtnClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];//here linking the action to the button
cell.playIMG.hidden = NO;
}
now everything is working very well :)

Answer 2

The array isn't your problem - you're breaking the model-view-controller nature of the table view controller and its cells. If you want a control in the cell to call a method in the table view controller, make the table view controller the delegate of the cell, and call the delegate method from the cell's button.
If the code you've posted is correct, then you're creating a new table view instance in the PlayClicked method, which is definitely not the way to do it.
As a minor stylistic point, the Cocoa convention of method naming is camelCase, with a lower-case initial letter.