[iPhone] Custom UITableViewController and selecting cell problem.

Question

Hello,
I'm creating a custom table view controller by declaring a UIViewController and adopting the UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate protocol.
With my current implementation, if I select a cell to transition to another view and then navigate back to the tableview, the cell will remain selected.
There must be some delegate method I am not implementing.
If I update the header file of my table view controller by removing the adopted protocols and subclassing the UITableViewController, I dont have this "selection sticking" problem.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You're not doing anything wrong, except by omission. If you choose to implement a table view controller as a UIViewController rather than a UITableViewController, you are responsible for controlling selection/deselection of the cells on returning back to the table view from some child view. In the common case where something going on in the child controller affects what cell should be selected/deselected on returning back to the parent table view, this is exactly what you want, because the UITableViewController doesn't always get it right, to sometimes comical effect.
How you would set this up is highly context-dependent.
Doug