I have a UITableView whose contents are dynamically changing, like a FIFO stack. Cells are added to the bottom and removed from the top.
This works beautifully, and I can scroll to the indexPath so that the newest message always scrolls down to the bottom (Like a chat application).
Now.. I want to add a footer to that table section. Instead of using
SrollToRowAtIndexPath
I would like to be able to scroll to the tableFooterView.
Any ideas how I can do that would be appreciated.
The easiest way to do this is to use UITableViewScrollPositionTop on the LAST ROW in the LAST SECTION. This works very well for me...
[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:LAST_ROW inSection:LAST_SECTION] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];
Make sure your Table Footer View is well spaced out at the bottom and it should sit nicely animated inside the view...
Hope this helps...
Great idea, was looking for this myself :) Here's sample code, which would do the trick:
[tableView reloadData];
NSIndexPath *index = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:1];
[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:index
atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionBottom animated:YES];
You MUST have at least one cell in your tableView footer, the problem is that it's going to visible. Didn't have time to test, but I'd guess you could make it really small?
Additionally you must implement correct stuff inside numberOfSectionsInTableView (at least one for table and one for footer), numberOfRowsInSection (at least one for footer, your last section), viewForHeaderInSection (nil except for your cell), heightForHeaderInSection (maybe if you set this as zero), cellForRowAtIndexPath (add special case for your cell in footer)...
That should be enough.
I'm using this:
- (void)scrollToBottom{
[self.myTable scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:[self.fetchedResultsController.fetchedObjects count] -1 inSection:0] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];
}