Question

How do i change the location of the text AND show the FULL string in UITableView?

Here is a screen shot of what I have, once you look at it you will know what I mean. Thanks
My App http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9926/chucknhelp.tif

Answer 1

You can do it without subclassing UITableViewCell.

In the method tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:, create a basic UITableViewCell and change the properties of the UILabel contained in this cell. Change the maximum number of lines to fit more text in your cell.

Unfortunately, the label of the cell is not accessible by properties, so you need to fetch it with the subviews property.

Of course this uses an implementation detail of UITableViewCell, so it might break with future releases of the SDK. Use with care.

Here is an example:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"YourCellId"];
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:@"YourCellId"] autorelease];
        cell.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:16];
        UILabel* cellLabel = [cell.contentView.subviews objectAtIndex:0];
        [cellLabel setNumberOfLines:3];
    }
    cell.text = @"Your text";
    return cell;
}

Update:

To set the row height to fit the text, you can do the following:

1. Set the cell height to fit the text.

You need something like this:

CGSize textSize = [text sizeWithFont:font
                   constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(313, 1000)
                       lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
cell.frame = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 320.0, textSize.height);

2. Return the cell height in the tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: method.

For example like this:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    UITableViewCell* cell = [self tableView:(UITableView*)self.view cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    CGRect cellFrame = cell.frame;
    return cellFrame.size.height;
}