Prevent indentation of UITableViewCell (contentView) while editing - iphone

Question

Is it possible to keep the contentView.frame always the same, regardless of tableView.editing? I already tried to override layoutSubviews and willTransitionToState but those options fizzled out too. I can't seem to be able to change the width of the contentView. Or maybe my approach ist just plain impossible ...
Maybe there is another way to solve this.
The behaviour I want to achieve is the following: I want the standard textLabel of a UITableViewCell to be always indented and not change position when the tableView enters editing mode. The problem I will probably face is that the behaviour of the detailTextLabel will have to be corrected (e.g. truncation of text if textLabelcontent is too long). The reason why I don't want to implement my own UILabelis because a custom subviews will decrease the scrolling performance by a significant amount.
I hope that anyone already implemented something like this in their UITableViewand could show me a solution to this tedious problem. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I'm dealing with a UITableView in plain and not grouped style.

Answer 1

Use the UITableViewDelegate method:
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
return NO;
}
This will work for both grouped and non-grouped UITableView types. However, if you have a grouped tableview, you can use this property on the cell:
cell.shouldIndentWhileEditing = NO;

Answer 2

Luckily, iOS is perfectly equipped to keep whatever value constant.
This (ugly) piece of code will keep the frame fixed to whatever value has origin.x==0. This is easily adapted to your particular needs.
// put this in your UITableViewCell subclass
-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
NSLog(#"observed value for kp %# changed: %#",keyPath,change);
if ( [keyPath isEqual:#"frame"] && object == self.contentView )
{
CGRect newFrame = self.contentView.frame;
CGRect oldFrame = [[change objectForKey:NSKeyValueChangeOldKey] CGRectValue];
NSLog(#"frame old: %# new: %#",NSStringFromCGRect(oldFrame),NSStringFromCGRect(newFrame));
if ( newFrame.origin.x != 0 ) self.contentView.frame = oldFrame;
}
}
// add the cell as an observer for frame changes, somewhere in initialization:
[self.contentView addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"frame" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionOld context:nil];
// IMPORTANT: remove the cell as an observer in -dealloc:
[self.contentView removeObserver:self forKeyPath:#"frame"];
This will only allow the frame to change to values with an origin.x==0. Remove the NSLog() lines for Release builds.
I have tested this for a few minutes and haven't seen any side effect.

Answer 3

Based on Usman.3D
On the storyboard, a property indent While Editing is checked by default. It can be unchecked manually. It equals to cell.shouldIndentWhileEditing = NO.

Answer 4

You will have to override layoutSubviews to do this. It applies for the level of custom indentation so it does for none.
Please have a look at How can I change the amount of indentation on my custom UITableViewCell while editing?. I provided an example how to change the level of indentation. Though it didn't work 100% for the OP it worked in my example app. I think this will point you in the right direction.

Answer 5

I had the same trouble with my plain style table even with shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath returning NO
On my side, I encounter the issue because my first row should not be deleted and the rest of the table view cells should.
I added this second method and it worked:
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
if (indexPath.row == 0 && indexPath.section == 0) return NO;
return YES;
}
Hope it helps

Answer 6

Have you looked at UITableViewCell's shouldIndentWhileEditing and indentationLevel properties? Those might sort it.

Answer 7

A little late,
but I solved the problem by switching off the Autoresizing Mask for all views in my TableViewCell:
[<viewInCell> setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingNone];
Or switch off Autoresizing of width and/or height directly in Interface Builder.

Answer 8

Just came across this as I was researching the same problem.
A very easy solution is to set the indentation level to a negative number - it is a signed integer after all.
A [cell setIndentationLevel:-3] worked perfectly for me, given a default indentation width of 10, to move the label back to the left in a plain table.

Answer 9

You can always get a tableviewcell with an indexpath. Using that tableviewcell reuseidentifier, You can avoid the tableview cell content size to be resized or not. I had a requirement to implement the similar kind of functionality to avoid resizing of seperate cells. PFB the code.
-(BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
BOOL shouldIndentWhileEditingRow = NO;
UITableViewCell *lTableViewCell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
/*Change the position of the target rect based on Sending messages or Receiving messages*/
if ([lTableViewCell.reuseIdentifier isEqualToString:#"SendingChatCellIdentifier"]) {
shouldIndentWhileEditingRow = NO;
}else if ([lTableViewCell.reuseIdentifier isEqualToString:#"ReceivingChatCellIdentifier"]){
shouldIndentWhileEditingRow = YES;
}
return shouldIndentWhileEditingRow;
}