Setting IBAction on Custom Cell from xib?

Question

I created a custom cell in a xib (using Storyboards in iOS6 but created separate xib for cell) and now I'm trying to connect my speaker button to an IBAction in my UITableViewController sublcass.

I registered my cell in my viewDidLoad:

[self.tableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"MissedWordTableCell" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"MissedWordCell"];

I've tried a couple of different ways to add the target. For example, in my tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath, I tried to add the target directly.

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"MissedWordCell";
MissedQuestionEntity *missedQuestion;

// forIndexPath: is iOS6
MissedWordTableCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
// Add target here?  Didn't work. @selector(playWordAction) or @selector(playWordAction:) 
//    [cell.playAudioBtn addTarget:self action:@selector(playWordAction) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

I also tried to set the File Owner to my Table View Controller in my Custom cell xib, but still didn't work.

Here's my error message:

2013-07-30 07:47:15.833 Spanish[69420:c07] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception     
'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSArrayI doIt]: unrecognized selector sent to instance     
0xec34430'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x231e012 0x172de7e 0x23a94bd 0x230dbbc 0x230d94e 0x1741705 0x6752c0 0x675258 0x736021 0x73657f 0x7356e8     
0x6a4cef 0x6a4f02 0x682d4a 0x674698 0x1c0bdf9 0x1c0bad0 0x2293bf5 0x2293962 0x22c4bb6 0x22c3f44 0x22c3e1b     
0x1c0a7e3 0x1c0a6

Answer 1

In UITableViewCell just register the property:

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *playSoundButton;

In your UITableViewController:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [self.tableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"YourCustomCell" bundle:nil] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"YourCustomCell"];
    // ...
}


- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
   YourCustomCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"YourCustomCell"];

   [[cell playSoundButton] addTarget:self action:@selector(playWordAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

    //...
}

-(IBAction) playWordAction:(id) sender
{
    // do what you want to
}