Category: iOS Delegate -- Respond UI Event by Delegate
In the last post I talked about how to Customsize an UI Widget. There is a use case of the Widget: respond some UI event of the Widget in another View Controller.
The logic is rely on the outside View Controller after the Widget has been defined. So we can not implement the UI event handler until we refered the Widget inside a View Controller.
Also, if I put several this kind of widgets on the same screen, their click event should be impelmented respectively.
Here comes the delegate!
Let’s assume a use case: I want to refresh my widget data by click the refresh UIButton on the upper right corner of my widget.
On the meantime, my widget will be reused. So I want to put the touch event logic outside of the Widget class.
In Widget class
Step 1. Define the touch UIButton event on Widget
Step 2. Define the Delegete method signature which will be common for each button event
@class ApidaeCustomView;
@protocol RefreshDataDelegate <NSObject>
@required
- (void)refreshData;
@end
@interface ApidaeCustomView : UIView
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *refreshButton;
- (IBAction)touchRefreshButton:(id)sender;
@property (nonatomic, assign) id <RefreshDataDelegate> dataDelegate ;
@end
Step 3. Implement the touch UIButton event, calling the Delegate method
#import "ApidaeCustomView.h"
@interface ApidaeCustomView ()
@end
@implementation ApidaeCustomView
- (IBAction)touchRefreshButton:(id)sender {
NSLog(@"touch refresh UIButton...");
if (dataDelegate != nil) {
[dataDelegate refreshData]; //!!! call delegate method
}
[self loadData];
}
@end
In View Controller class
Step 4. Implement the Delegate in the View Controller which has this Widget
@interface TestCustomViewController : UIViewController <RefreshDataDelegate>
@end
#import "TestCustomViewController.h"
@interface TestCustomViewController ()
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet ApidaeCustomView *apiCustomViewOne;
@end
@implementation TestCustomViewController
- (void)refreshData {
NSLog(@"refreshData called at Controller....");
[self refreshMyData];
}
@end
