Prevent UITableViewCell subclass from allowing swipe to delete?

Question

I’d like to prevent a custom UITableViewCell from swiping to show the red Delete button. I can disable this on the UITableView, but I’ve not seen any existing questions that allow this to be done within the cell class, meaning I don’t need to do it on every table that uses that cell.

Can I disable this (without disabling editing entirely, I have a custom pann-able overflow) directly inside the cell class?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '14 at 15:03

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Just use:

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    return indexPath.row != THE_ROW_YOU_WANT_TO_STOP;
}

answered Jul 25 '14 at 15:03

CW0007007

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '14 at 15:14

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Try to override - (void)setEditing: animated: method in the following way:

- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setEditing:NO animated:NO];
}

answered Jul 25 '14 at 15:14

Sviatoslav Yakymiv

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '14 at 15:18

You need to implement editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath and perform your test there.

If there is only one cell that will have this pannable overflow and you know which row, you could define a constant and test for that, like so:

#define kPANNABLE_OVERFLOW_CELL_ROW  7

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if ( indexPath.row == kPANNABLE_OVERFLOW_CELL_ROW )
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}

If you will have multiple, arbitrary cells that need this treatment, you'll need to handle it a bit differently.

Inside

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    // create your table view cell
    if ( _Your_table_view_cell_is_the_pannable_overflow_type_ ) {
        cell.editingStyle = UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
    }
}

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}

Try above code it just disable the delete button from tableview cell swipe.

Edit: hiding button from cell go here

iPhone UITableView - Delete Button

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 28 '14 at 05:21

Jasmin

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Prevent UITableViewCell subclass from allowing swipe to delete?

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