UITableView details as a subview

Question

Hi all,

I have a UITableView in iPhone with enough cell to make it scrollable. I would like to have a subview display whenever I click on a cell, rather than using the navigation controller behaviour.

The problem is that I cannot calculate the CGRect exactly to have the subview always centered in page, because the CGRect is calculated from top of table, and if I scroll table and click cell, the subview will be added out of screen.

The solution could be easy, but I don't know if it's possible: identify the portion of the current viewable area of the UITableView and obtain in some way the frame and therefore origin and size, then build a subview based on such coordinates. Do you think it's possible without writing not too much code ?

thanks Leonardo

Answer 1

A simple solution is to not add your sub view as a subview of the UITableView but of its parent (or the main application window). So instead of doing something like:

[myTableView addSubview:mySubView];

do:

[[myTableView superview] addSubview:mySubView];