Lakesh was mostly right, I needed to reloadData.
I changed the text color by adding a boolean (editClicked) to my setEditing function:
- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)flag animated:(BOOL)animated
{
NSLog(@"setEditing called");
[super setEditing:flag animated:animated];
if (flag == YES){
editClicked = true;
[tableView reloadData];
}
else {
editClicked = false;
}
}
In my table's cellForRowAtIndexPath function, I then added the following if statement:
//If editClicked is true, change text to grey
if (editClicked == true){
[countTotalFieldUniversal setValue:[UIColor darkGrayColor]
forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];
}
else {
// Save the changes if needed and change the views to noneditable.
[countTotalFieldUniversal setValue:[UIColor blackColor]
forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];
}
Thanks everyone (esp Lakesh and Kyle) for the help!