Strategy to lazy load images for buttons within UIScrollView?

I have a horizontal UIScrollView that contains UIButtons (though it could be any object). I would like to only download images for these buttons as the user scrolls and they are seen. I would also like an activityindicator running on each button while the images are downloading. Here's what I've tried with results:

1. Check content offset of uiscrollview and download images for visible buttons. Problem: issues getting activity view shown within subclassed UIButton and not desired usability since images are only downloaded once scrolling stops.

2. Add开发者_开发知识库 subviews (not buttons) to the UIScrollview hoping to use the view's ViewController to initiate a downloaded on viewDidAppear. Problem: viewDidAppear never seems to get called (because I am using addSubView?).

I've seen other apps that do this kind of loading but need some guidance on the typical set-up. Ebay's app is a great example. All items have a default image until the item comes into view, then an activityindicator runs and the items unique image is downloaded.

Thanks for assistance.

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Without actually trying it out, here's my idea:

You can use the UIScrollViewDelegate method scrollViewDidScroll: to find out when your scroll view finished scrolling and then use [UIScrollView contentOffset] to determine which part of the scroll view is visible and (CGRect)convertRect:(CGRect)rect fromView:(UIView *)view to determine the button's position within the visible part of the scroll view. Have a method that checks if the button has had its image loaded yet and if not, load it and refresh the view if necessary.

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Most such apps are using a UITableView, not a plain scroll view. Joe Hewitt's Three20 framework has a TTImageView class that can do lazy image loading and is pretty well suited to this kind of use.