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Martin
Martin

Reputation: 155

How to disable UITableViewRowAction (without clicking an edit button)?

Normally when this function is called, deleting a table view cell by swiping left is allowed:

    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

    if editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyle.delete {
        dataSource.remove(at: indexPath.row)

        tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPath], with: UITableViewRowAnimation.fade)
    }
}

But I created an edit button like this:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem

and I'd like to enable deleting a cell only when the edit button was clicked and NOT just by swiping. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 833

Answers (2)

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 155

I solved it this way: 

    var editMode = false

...

    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {

    if editMode == true {
        return true
    } else {
        return false
    }
}

    override func setEditing(_ editing: Bool, animated: Bool) {
    super.setEditing(editing, animated: animated)

    if(editing) {
        tableView.reloadData()
        editMode = true
    }
    else if(!editing) {
        tableView.reloadData()
        editMode = false
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Nirav D
Nirav D

Reputation: 72420

Create one Boolean instance property with default value false and set it to true on the action of your BarButttonItem after that use that boolean property in canEditRowAt method to allow/disallow row edit.

var allowEdit = false

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
    return allowEdit
}

Note: Don't forgot it to set false again once your delete is complete.

Upvotes: 2

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