Edit Mode Delete Spinner Icon for Specific TableView Rows

Question

I have a grouped tableview. Each section has three rows. I need to be able to delete one section at a time. Using the standard edit mode, I can make it work. However, the delete icon shows up to the left of each cell, not just the first row in each section.

Is there a way to suppress the little spinner icon for all rows except the first?

I am hoping there is an easy way to do this without subclassing.

Thanks for your help.

Here is a screenshot to help visualize it: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ll-EJY5ACw7oqHH1xKBQ8w?feat=directlink

Answer 1

Instead of deleting rows, make a parent UIView that contains a UILabel and custom UIButton as subviews. Set this parent view as the section header view.

The button should be wired up to trigger a method that deletes rows by, for example, flipping a BOOL state flag for that section and then reloading the table:

- (void) deleteMySection:(id)sender {
    self.showMySection = NO;
    [tableView reloadData];
}

Your -numberOfSectionsInTableView: delegate method will accordingly adjust its output depending on the state of this boolean flag, e.g.

- (NSInteger) numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tv {
    return ((showMySection) ? numberOfSections : numberOfSections - 1);
}

Answer 2

Try this:

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if(indexPath.row == 0) {
        return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete;
    } else {
        return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
    }
}