iPhone: How to Place a Scrollview Inside of Tableview Cell

Question

I want to put a scroll view inside of the table view cell. I have a number of buttons in one cell of table view and I need to scroll that cell to show the appropriate button.

Answer 1

I don't think you can do this. It would require nesting of scrollviews which isn't really supported.

Even if it was, it would be very difficult for a user to know which scrollview they were hitting with their pudgy finger. Remember, you don't have the one pixel precision of a mouse on the iPhone. You have an area of at least 15x15 pixels. You don't have a scroll bar but instead just drags anywhere on the screen.

Instead, you should use a master-detail pattern. Selecting the cell in the tableview pushes a detail view which has the scroll view with all the buttons.

Answer 2

If you want to use a vertical scroll view then I wouldn't suggest you doing it because, as TechZen wrote, there will be a mess in this case.

If you want the inner scroll view to scroll horizontally then it might be achieved by 2 ways:

• Implement a custom table view cell that will include a scroll view inside it.
• Add a scroll view as a sub-view to your cell that you will return from tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method.

I suggest you to use the second approach.
There are plenty of examples online. Usually the sub-views are labels or image views, but it is not complicated at all to add a scroll view instead...

Answer 3

why u want to doing like this.?? it think the best idea is you have to draw manually your table view above your uiscrollview, i did it, and it works, just need more effort and accuracy of draw. but it takes a lot of times.. :)