How to get UITextField value on custom UITableView cell

Question

I'm new to IOS development and i'm trying to develop my first app.

So my problem is... I've got a UITableView with custom cells, each cell contains an UITextField. When I press a button I'd like to put each UITextField value in a NSMutableArray.

I think I've got to do something like that but I'm not sure:

NSMutableArray *playerNameArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

for (int i=0; i < nbPlayers; i++){ //nbPlayers is the number of rows in the UITableView
    NSString *playerName =UITextField.text;
    [playerNameArray addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", playerName]];
}

If someone can help me.... :) Thanks

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '12 at 23:54

You need to reference the instance of your UITextField, what you're doing there is attempting to call text on the UITextField class. Something like this would probably solve your problem:

NSMutableArray *playerNameArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

for (int i=0; i < nbPlayers; i++){ //nbPlayers is the number of rows in the UITableView

    MyTableViewCellSubclass *theCell = (id)[self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:i inSection:0]];
    UITextField *cellTextField = [theCell textField];

    NSString *playerName = [cellTextField text];
    [playerNameArray addObject:playerName];
}

This works as long as you have declared that UITextField as a property named textField in your custom TableViewCell subclass. — LJ Wilson, Jan 23 '12 at 01:13

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 08 '21 at 08:13

The text field passed to your delegate is a subview of the cell's contentView.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
      UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell*) textField.superview.superview;
      NSIndexPath *txtIndPath = [self.tblPendingDeliveryData indexPathForCell:cell];
    
      write you code here.....like
      if(textField.tag == 1)
      {
          NSMutableDictionary *dict = [self.arrPendingDeliveryData objectAtIndex:txtIndPath.row];
          [dict setObject:textField.text forKey:@"ReOrder"];
      }

}

In txtIndPath you will get active textfield's indexpath. Assign the textfield tag property with necessary value. It works well for me.

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

2

Look at this thread for a similar question

UITextField in UITableViewCell Help

You should to use one of the textfield delegated method to fill the proper cell of your array

 - (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
   }

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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How to get UITextField value on custom UITableView cell

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