keeping the selection "permanent" in the UITableView cell

Question

Hello all ,

I seem to be having a problem in my UITableView clicking behaviour. I'm using a Tree to create a hiearchy of tableviews.

My problem arises when I enter the following screen ( I produced some screenshots to clarify ).

1) When I enter this screen

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4050/samplec.png

I can go to my next tableview by clicking on my info button below( second from the left)( so not by clicking on the cell). This works. It will go to the tableview associated with the previous row.

Here is where my "problem" starts. As soon as I click outside my current tableview , for instance on the empty cell below or if I click the same cell and drag it a bit, then my cell will become unselected.

2) As you can see in the image below.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5930/sample3i.png

I do not want this to happen. I want my cell despite the fact that I'm clicking around to stay selected. Is there a way to realize this?

Answer 1

I think you should take a variable, when user selects a cell, store the value of cell in to variable.

Now when User clicks info button, you can do whatever you required as value is stored in variable.

Best of luck.

Answer 2

thanks guys for the answers however @retainCount and Shaggy Frog ... I've got an image over my selection so with every selection, a different image covers it. So you won't see the selection only the image changing ( this is the indicator )

ps. I'm from a different pc now that's why I'm posting an answer instead of a comment.