How to change view when tapping button in a custom UITableViewCell

Question

Usually, I change view like this:

var goBackToMainView:MainViewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("navigation2") as MainViewController

self.presentViewController(goBackToMainView, animated: true, completion: nil)

But if I try to do this in my custom UITableViewCell when the user tap a button, it gives me errors like customTableViewCell does not have a member named 'storyboard' and 'presentViewController'

How can I change views in my TableViewCell ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '14 at 20:48

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Have you tried adding as a subview?

Example:

var tableViewCell = UITableViewCell(frame: aFrame)

tableViewCell.addSubview(aView)

answered Dec 17 '14 at 20:48

Leandroc

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And how do i get aView if i can't use `self.storyboard` ? – Clément Bisaillon Dec 17 '14 at 20:54
so your tableViewCell is from the storyboard? Where are you creating the 'child' views that you want to add/change to/in the UITableViewCell? – Leandroc Dec 17 '14 at 21:00
I create the other view in the storyboard – Clément Bisaillon Dec 17 '14 at 21:12
have you created the link to the StoryBoard in the UITableViewCell? like... `var storyboard = UIStoryBoard(storyboardWithName: "something", bundle: nil)` – Leandroc Dec 17 '14 at 21:17
Thanks now i have the storyboard variable working now what do i have to do to get the presentViewController function – Clément Bisaillon Dec 17 '14 at 21:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

Why do it in the UITableViewCell subclass? You should be doing your view management in the ViewController.

In your view controller:

import UIKit

// Take note of UITableViewDelegate, you'll need it to be able to use
// tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath)
class MyTableViewController: UITableViewController, UITableViewDelegate {

    // Assuming that you have a storyboard variable in AppDelegate
    let appDelegate: AppDelegate = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as AppDelegate

    // .. more code here like viewDidLoad, etc.

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

        var viewController = appDelegate.storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MainViewController") as MainViewController

        // This will probably appear as a modal
        self.presentViewController(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

}

Note: I just did a quick playground for the code above so you may need to unwrap optionals.

If you have your view controller embedded in a navigation controller, you might want to use Unwind Segues. More information about that here: What are Unwind segues for and how do you use them?

Cheers!

Cause i wan't it to change view it the user tap the button not the cell — Clément Bisaillon, Dec 19 '14 at 18:17

How to change view when tapping button in a custom UITableViewCell

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