ios 7 - Custom UIMenuItem not working on TableViewCell

Question

I am working on adding custom UIMenuItem on tableViewCell. I used this stackoverflow post to to add customMenuItem. This worked fine on ios 6. But it is not at all working on ios 7.

Below is the implementation I have:

In viewDidLoad:

UIMenuItem *sendByEmailMenuItem = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Send By Email" action:@selector(sendByEmail:)];
[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] setMenuItems: @[sendByEmailMenuItem]];
[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] update];

Then adding its delegate

// Shared Menu item delegate actions

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldShowMenuForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    self.orderAtIndex = [self.orders objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    [self becomeFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canPerformAction:(SEL)action forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath withSender:(id)sender 
{
    return  (action == @selector(sendByEmail:));
}


- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView performAction:(SEL)action forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath withSender:(id)sender {
    if (action == @selector(sendByEmail:)) {
        [self sendByEmail:sender];
    }
}

// Subclassing Table View cells

-(BOOL) canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender {
    return (action == @selector(sendByEmail:));
}

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
    return YES;
}

- (void) sendByEmail: (id) sender {
    // Some actions...
}

What I am doing wrong? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

lol I banged my head with this 3 days ago… :) but now i got it working — Ahmed Z., Apr 10 '14 at 13:34
Yup the issue was the method wasn't been called… the `becomeFirstResponder` method did the trick… Code is provided in answer.. — Ahmed Z., Apr 10 '14 at 13:39
No, I added it in my TableViewController implementation. But not working — User16119012, Apr 10 '14 at 14:22
Menu item is not appearing. Call to `canPerformAction` is not hitting — User16119012, Apr 10 '14 at 14:25
try these links… [question1](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14473959/uimenucontroller-with-uitableviewcontroller-doesnt-work) [question2](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4258839/trouble-displaying-uimenucontroller-when-cell-tapped-in-uitableview) — Ahmed Z., Apr 10 '14 at 14:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '14 at 13:38

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In viewWillAppear or viewDidLoad , i added these

 UIMenuItem *translateToMenu = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Translate to.." action:@selector(translateTo:)];
 UIMenuController *menuController = [UIMenuController sharedMenuController];
 [menuController setMenuItems:[NSArray arrayWithObject:translateToMenu]];
 [menuController setMenuVisible:YES animated:YES];

added this method

-(void) translateTo: (id) sender {}

and add only these 2 methods

- (BOOL) canPerformAction:(SEL)selector withSender:(id) sender {
    if (selector == @selector(translateTo:)) 
        return YES;
    else
        return NO;
}

- (BOOL) canBecomeFirstResponder {
    return YES;
}

Try this and let me know…

answered Apr 10 '14 at 13:38

Ahmed Z.

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Thanks, I added this to fresh project with tableViewController. But still not working. Does it really worked for you? – User16119012 Apr 10 '14 at 14:58
yes i have it working here… is it showing or is it not even showing? – Ahmed Z. Apr 11 '14 at 04:09
one more thing u have to add… `[self becomeFirstResponder];` did u add this ? – Ahmed Z. Apr 11 '14 at 06:36
You didn't add any table view delegate actions for this. Like I have above? I tried them y keeping and removing too. But can not get it working – User16119012 Apr 11 '14 at 06:43
ohh.. one thing do u have custom tableViewCell ? – Ahmed Z. Apr 11 '14 at 07:17
No, I have Normal prototype cell – User16119012 Apr 11 '14 at 07:18
ohm then in any place do u `setUserInteractionEnabled` to `false`? – Ahmed Z. Apr 11 '14 at 07:19
Sorry, I have used normal protype cell, which is used to create a dynmic cells runtime. No i am `setUserInteractionEnabled ` to false any where – User16119012 Apr 11 '14 at 07:22
one thing u can do is attach a `UILongPressGesture` to it… and on its method call uimenucontroller… – Ahmed Z. Apr 11 '14 at 07:25

ios 7 - Custom UIMenuItem not working on TableViewCell

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