Contact App - Search and apply Selection Style - ios

Question

[Edited Post]
For practicing, I developing a contact app without any backend. I followed only one NSMutableArray for maintaining contacts which is displayed in a UITableView.
Objective;
Like to search a contact (Ex: Dad), user given a name in a textfield and touch up a button
In the button action, check if Dad contain in the Mutable array which one i followed.
If present, then it definitely present in the tableView as a row. So i want to put selectionStyle for that row.
If search text changes means (Ex: Mom), then revert previous selectionStyle and apply to the row(Mom).
If not present, label notify "Not Present" as text. (Done!).
IBAction:
-(IBAction)actionSearchNameInTable:(id)sender{
if([myContactsArray containsObject:txtForContactName.text]){
myTable.tag=5;
NSInteger tempIndex=[myContactsArray indexOfObject:txtForContactName.text];
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath=[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:tempIndex inSection:0];
[self tableView:myTable didSelectRowAtIndexPath:tempIndexPath]; //broke here
NSLog(#"Call Passed!");
}
}
didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
if(myTable.tag==5){
NSLog(#"called done!");
//Here i like to select that row and apply selectionStyle or favorite background color for that cell, idea?.
myTable.tag=0;
}
These are all just other part of my application. I sured that, Delegate and Datasource are connected properly.

Answer 1

You are calling didDeselectRowAtIndexPath and not didSelectRowAtIndexPath.
And I think you have not implemented didDeselectRowAtIndexPath in your class so thats the reason of crash.
and for your another question:
-(void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
if(cell.tag==100)
{
cell.contentView.backgroundColor=[UIColor grayColor];
}
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell=[tblviw cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.tag=100;
cell.contentView.backgroundColor=[UIColor grayColor];
}

Answer 2

Change this:
-(IBAction)actionSearchNameInTable:(id)sender{
if([myContactsArray containsObject:txtForContactName.text]){
myTable.tag=5;
NSInteger tempIndex=[myContactsArray indexOfObject:txtForContactName.text];
NSLog(#"TEmp index:%i",tempIndex);
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath=[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:tempIndex inSection:0];
NSLog(#"Temp IP:%#",tempIndexPath);
[self tableView:myTable didSelectRowAtIndexPath]; //broke here
NSLog(#"Call Passed!");
}
}
And for custom selection background do this in your cellForRowAtIndexPath.
UIView *customColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
customColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:180/255.0
green:138/255.0
blue:171/255.0
alpha:0.5];
cell.selectedBackgroundView = customColorView;
Hope this helps.. :)
EDIT:
didSelectRowAtIndexPath is a delegate. It only get called when user interaction happens. I face a same problem some days ago. I did it in cellForRowAtIndexPath. For selecting a row do this:
if ([[myContactsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] isEqualToString:txtForContactName.text]) {
[self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
}

Answer 3

Please try to see my edited answer...
-(IBAction)actionSearchNameInTable:(id)sender{
if([myContactsArray containsObject:txtForContactName.text]){
myTable.tag=5;
NSInteger tempIndex=[myContactsArray indexOfObject:txtForContactName.text];
NSLog(#"TEmp index:%i",tempIndex);
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath=[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:tempIndex inSection:0];
NSLog(#"Temp IP:%#",tempIndexPath);
[self tableView:myTable didSelectRowAtIndexPath:tempIndexPath]; //Change here......
NSLog(#"Call Passed!");
}
}

Answer 4

Action for searching that if given text is present or not:
-(IBAction)actionSearchNameInTable:(id)sender{
[txtForContactName resignFirstResponder];
if([myContactsArray containsObject:txtForContactName.text]){
myTable.tag=5;
[myTable reloadData];
}
}
In cellForRowAtIndexPath:
//Better delegate to apply selection style
//Code after dequeue...
myTableCell.textLabel.text=[myContactsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
myTableCell.imageView.image=[myContactsPhotosArray objectAtIndex:0];
{
myTableCell.textLabel.text=[myContactsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
myTableCell.imageView.image=[myContactsPhotosArray objectAtIndex:0];
if(myTable.tag==5){
NSLog(#"Ready to apply selectionStyle");
if ([[myContactsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] isEqualToString:txtForContactName.text]) {
[myTable selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
myTable.tag=0;
}
}
return myTableCell;
}