Get the row of UITextField inside UITableViewCell - ios

Question

I have two UITextFields inside a custom cell of a UITableView.
I need to edit and store values of the textFields.
When I click inside a UITextField I have to know the row it belongs to in order to save the value to the correct record of a local array.
How can I get the row index of the textField?
I tried :
-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
currentRow = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow].row;
}
But the currentRow does not change when I click inside the UITextFieldRow.It changes only when I click (select) the entire row...

Answer 1

The text field did not send touch event to the table view so indexPathForSelectedRow is not working. You can use:
CGPoint textFieldOrigin = [self.tableView convertPoint:textField.bounds.origin fromView:textField];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:textFieldOrigin];

Answer 2

In iOS 8 I found that the simulator and device had different number of superviews, so this is a little more generic and should work across all versions of iOS:
UIView *superview = textField.superview;
while (![superview isMemberOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]]) { // If you have a custom class change it here
superview = superview.superview;
}
UITableViewCell *cell =(UITableViewCell *) superview;
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.table indexPathForCell:cell];

Answer 3

Try this
//For ios 7
UITableViewCell *cell =(UITableViewCell *) textField.superview.superview.superview;
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [tblView indexPathForCell:cell];
//For ios 6
UITableViewCell *cell =(UITableViewCell *) textField.superview.superview;
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [tblView indexPathForCell:cell];

Answer 4

1>You can achieve it by programmatically creating textfields in your CellForRowAtIndexPath and setting text field's tag as indexpath.row.
then textFieldDidBeginEditing you can just fetch textField.tag and achieve what you want.
2>another way is to have 2 custom cells in one table view. in that way you cam place text feild individually and set their tags from your utility panel.

Answer 5

What I do is create a custom cell, and put whatever custom UI elements I need inside and create a property indexPath which gets set when the cell is dequeued. Then I pass the indexPath along to the custom elements in didSet.
class EditableTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
#IBOutlet weak var textField: TableViewTextField!
var indexPath: IndexPath? {
didSet {
//pass it along to the custom textField
textField.indexPath = indexPath
}
}
}
class TableViewTextField: UITextField {
var indexPath: IndexPath?
}
In TableView:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "EditableCell") as! EditableTableViewCell
cell.indexPath = indexPath
return cell
}
Then I implement the UITextFieldDelegate protocol, and since the textField has its indexPath you will always know where it came from.
Not sure where the best place to set the delegate is. The easiest is to set it when the cell is dequeued.
override func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
guard let myTextField = textField as? TableViewTextField else { fatalError() }
guard let indexPath = myTextField.indexPath else { fatalError() }
}