disable touch interaction in UITableView

Question

I have a UITableView that draws a subView when the user touches a cell.

The problem is that the subView drawing is animated and if the user is fast enough they can tap a cell multiple times which I want to disable during the animation and afterwards.

I've tried using this:

- (void) tableView: (UITableView*) tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath*) indexPath {

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginIgnoringInteractionEvents];

and also a bool variable:

if (isAnimating == NO) {

but neither seem to work. In each case rapid touches screws up everything.

Any help would be great thanks!

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 21 '13 at 07:19

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Try this... After clicking on cell set

tableView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

edited Oct 21 '13 at 07:19

Simon M

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answered Feb 29 '12 at 09:01

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.userInteractionEnabled = FALSE; Works! – itgiawa Feb 29 '12 at 19:59
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Use NO instead for BOOLs in Objective-C, don't use False or FALSE – Edgar Jun 19 '13 at 22:45
Ok, could you please tell me difference from NO to FALSE? – User-1070892 Jun 10 '14 at 15:37
Basically speaking, there's no difference between NO and false, considered that you evaluate them correctly. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615702/is-there-a-difference-between-yes-no-true-false-and-true-false-in-objective-c – Reinder de Vries Sep 04 '14 at 11:19
In this case you lose the scroll too. – doxsi Jul 29 '16 at 06:32
It is disabling scroll too – Abdulmoiz Ahmer Feb 08 '19 at 06:40

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '17 at 15:34

I know this is an old question however it lacked the swift version so, in Swift 3 it is:

tableView.isUserInteractionEnabled = false;

and to turn it back on is:

tableView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true;

Just thought this might help someone if they were looking for the answer in swift 3 as I was, and ends up here.

disable touch interaction in UITableView

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