I have related items in adjacent table cells. When either of the related items is selected, before going to the detail view, I would like the momentary cell selection highlight to show both (or in some cases 3) cells highlighted to alert the user of the relationshp.
This a purely a "nice to have" cosmetic feature.
Any help appreciated.
In the method called when the user selects a row you can use:
[cell setSelected:YES];
One way to get the cell would be using tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath method (correct me if I'm wrong).
* FOLLOW-UP TO Shaggy Frog *
I appreciate your comments.
For some reason, I can't add a comment to or edit my own original question so I am editing my follow-up.
May I have an opinion on the following. Since the 2 highlightd cells would always be adjacent and the data related, it makes sense that the detail view contain details for both cells. However your point is valid and I don't want to get rejected.
Instead of 2 cells, if for the "related cells" I were to double the height of those cells, draw a horizontal line half way between (to make the 2 "subcells" of 44 pixels in height looking just like 2 cells) and place the data in subviews so the result looks exactly the same as 2 cells but it would actually be 1 cell. Selection of one of my "subcells" would then highlight 2 "subcells" which is the entire cell - same effect but 1 cell.
Do you think that would pass?
And of course the biggest advantage is that I know how to do this versus the multi-cell highlighting which doesn't seem possible.