How to make a UITable to highlight its 5th row when we start the app?

Question

I am using a splitviewcontroller. When I select something in the table the row is highlighted and it is shown in the detailed view. I have also provided an option to change the contents in the detailed view by scrolling.

When I start I want the the 5th row to be highlighted by itself, how can I do it?

Answer 1

Check out the following UITableView method:

- (void)selectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath animated:(BOOL)animated scrollPosition:(UITableViewScrollPosition)scrollPosition;

Answer 2

I was using the above function from the start. But the app was crashing when I wrote this code into the viewDidLoad.

NSIndexPath *scrollIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:5 inSection:0];
[self.tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:scrollIndexPath atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES]; 

There is no data loaded into the UITableView instance. You can't select a row that doesn't exist. This was the reason it was crashing. And yes, this is the function that will help us do it.