Yeah I really just want the textlabel's Text color to change when the row is selected. Another TableViewCell class seemed like overkill. I guess I understand the logic behind UITableViewSelectionStyle.None disabling highlight color, but it seems like an unnecessary limitation. I guess I'm just going to have to subclass and remove the background highlight.
From: Craig Dunn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:29 PM To: Drew Greenwell Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Setting HighlightedTextColor when UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None is used ah okay - so what is your goal? just to implement a custom 'selected' cell appearance? You said: "Note: Setting SelectionStyle to anything but none makes the highlighted color show as expected when the row is selected" Is that the behavior that you _want_? The expected effect of UITableViewCellSelection.None is that the cell has no distinct style when selected, so it makes sense that you need to set it to either Blue (default) or Grey for anything to "happen" (automatically) when a cell is selected. if you want the on-tap behavior to be yellow text on a white background, cell.TextLabel.TextColor = UIColor.Black; cell.TextLabel.HighlightedTextColor = UIColor.Yellow; //cell.SelectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.Blue; // or leave as default cell.SelectedBackgroundView = new UIView(new System.Drawing.RectangleF(0,0,320,44)){BackgroundColor=UIColor.White}; or else - i'm misunderstanding what you are actually trying to accomplish? p.s. this code should already be running on the main thread On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Drew Greenwell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sorry Craig, I didn't catch your second statement. The if/else modulus statement in my code generally has separate styles for the alternating row (I pass a CellStyle model that contains default and alternating styles). When I reduced the code, it would have been more appropriate for me to remove that if all together. Here is a more readable sample of my code. public override UITableViewCell GetCell (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath) { // the row index int row = indexPath.Row; var dRow = Rows [row]; // get a reusable cell instance and set the style var cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell (TableCellIdentifier + dRow.ViewName + dRow.Text); if (cell == null) { cell = InstantiateCell(dRow, UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, TableCellIdentifier); cell.SelectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None; var label = cell.TextLabel; label.TextColor = UIColor.Black; label.HighlightedTextColor = UIColor.Yellow; } } From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Drew Greenwell Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:07 PM To: Craig Dunn Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Setting HighlightedTextColor when UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None is used I actually initially thought about that and wrote this code below, but it also seems to have no effect. If I call cell.SetHighlighted(true, false); immediately after initializing the cell the highlight is on, but I need it to highlight only when the row is selected. I'm getting close to saying it can't be done without a custom cell, but that seems wrong. public override NSIndexPath WillSelectRow (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath) { selectedRowIndex = indexPath; tableView.CellAt(indexPath).SetHighlighted(true, false); return indexPath; } public override void WillDeselectRow (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath) { tableView.CellAt(indexPath).SetHighlighted(false, false); } From: Craig Dunn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 7:42 PM To: Drew Greenwell Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Setting HighlightedTextColor when UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None is used What about cell.Highlighted = true; // no animation or cell.SetHighlighted(true,false); // optional animation ? I'm not really sure what effect you are trying to accomplish with this code... if it is just to have different colors on every second row, why not just set the TextColor directly inside your if-else? On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Drew Greenwell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey all, I've got a UITableViewCell that I want to change the HighlightedTextColor. Setting the HighlightedtextColor property only seems to work when UITableViewCellSelectonStyle is set to something other than None. Do I have to subclass UITableViewCell to get this to apply or am I just missing something? Here's a trimmed down version of my GetCell method. Note: Setting SelectionStyle to anything but none makes the highlighted color show as expected when the row is selected public override UITableViewCell GetCell (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath) { // the row index int row = indexPath.Row; var dRow = Rows [row]; // get a reusable cell instance and set the style var cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell (TableCellIdentifier + dRow.ViewName + dRow.Text); if (cell == null) { cell = InstantiateCell(dRow, UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, TableCellIdentifier); if(indexPath.Row % 2 == 0){ // setting this to anything but None shows the highlighted text color cell.SelectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None; var label = cell.TextLabel; label.TextColor = UIColor.Black; label.HighlightedTextColor = UIColor.Yellow; }else{ // setting this to anything but None shows the highlighted text color cell.SelectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None; var label = cell.TextLabel; label.TextColor = UIColor.Black; label.HighlightedTextColor = UIColor.Yellow; } } Thanks in advance for any insight. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7403 (20120820) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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