Another Button at UITableView Editing Mode

Question

I need an additional button next to the Delete button when in editing mode of UITableView Cells. Any suggestions for the purpose is appreciated. Thank You.

Have a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2104403/550177 — Felix, Jan 12 '11 at 11:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '11 at 16:37

I would suggest you first subclass UITableViewCell. In the respective init method you create the button and add it to the contentView as a subview. Make the button hidden. After that you overwrite layoutSubviews and position the button on your content view by setting the frame property of the button. Then also subclass willTransitionToState: and check if the state is UITableViewCellStateShowingEditControlMask. If that's the case make the button visible. If not hide it.

Note: If you add an additional button to the UITableViewCell you also need to adjust the textLabel frame and other stuff to not overlap the button's rectangle.

Thank you for the response, however It'll be nice to have a sample source code to accept this as an answer. — Syed Absar, Jan 17 '11 at 13:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 30 '11 at 01:20

cell.editingAccessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;

or some other value than "check"

or

cell.editingAccessoryView = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeInfoDark];

or with some other value than the info button, with it's target set to something appropriate

an accessory view trumps a type

Another Button at UITableView Editing Mode

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