I have a Horizontal UICollectionView like the horizontal Calender in iOS.
Paging is enabled but not allowsMultipleSelection.
self.allowsMultipleSelection = false
self.isPagingEnabled = true
There are only 5 cells per page.
let cellSize = CGSize(width: self.view.frame.width / 5 , height: 60)
CollectionView's height is also 60.
didSelectItemAt change background color to .red and didDeselectItem resets it to .white.
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
if let cell = cell {
cell.backgroundColor = .red
}
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
if let cell = cell {
cell.backgroundColor = .white
}
}
The collection view has multiple sections and rows. If I select a cell in the first visible page and scroll, random cells are selected in the next visible pages. That is to say random cells are red in the next pages. I do not want this to be so. I want to select/change color of cells manually.
How can I fix this?
Don't forget that UICollectionView has embedded reusing mechanism, so you should deselect your cells in the method "prepareToReuse" directly inside the cell class.
Take a class-level variable, say index
var index = -1
As you have said that multiple selections are not allowed so the following will do the job for you
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
index = indexPath.item
collectionView.reloadData()
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
if let cell = cell {
cell.backgroundColor = indexPath.item == index ? .red : .white
}
}
Whenever user tap on any cell we save the position in index
variable and then call the reloadData() to notify collectionView about the change
In cellForRowAt
we check if the current cell us selected we set the color to red otherwise white
First, if you want to preserve multiple selection, you have to remember your selected ones in an array since it would get lost if a cell gets recycled and reused. For that use something like a [IndexPath] type). If one selected cell is enough, you could use a non-array version of below code.
var selectedItems: [IndexPath] = []
Then, do your recoloring in your cell's cellForItemAt(:)
:
cell.backgroundColor = selectedItems.contains(indexPath) ? .red : .white
Your didSelectItemAt
delegate function should look like:
if !selectedItems.contains(indexPath) { selectedItems.append(indexPath)}
collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)?.backgroundColor = .red
and your didDeselectItemAt
delegate function:
if let index = selectedItems.firstIndex(of: indexPath) { selectedItems.remove(at: index) }
collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)?.backgroundColor = .white
This should actually work. Let me know if we have to do adjustments.