Question

I am working on a project that has a uitableview with 3 rows in 1 section. Now, is what I would like to do is to be able to have 1 of those 3 cells be dynamic in height. First off, I don’t even know if thats possible. If it is, then I want to do it! I found a very useful tutorial helping me through it, here. I implemented the StringHelper files he recommended, and they work great for one cell, but when there are multiple cells, I begin to have issues. This picture illustrates what happens when I save the text:alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e7351da3ea.png

And as you can see for whatever reason randomly inserts a nice little arab looking symbol at the beginning.

So, here is the code I am working with:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{  
NSString *label = [entree.notes/*putting entree.notes here may or may not be correct*/ length]  == 0 ? kDefaultNoteLabel : aNote;
CGFloat height = [label RAD_textHeightForSystemFontOfSize:kTextViewFontSize] + 40.0;
return height;
}  


- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath     *)indexPath {

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue2 reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
 cell.editingAccessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;
  }
aNote = entree.notes; 
NSString *label = [aNote length] == 0 ? kDefaultNoteLabel : aNote;
switch (indexPath.row) {
    case 0: 
 cell.textLabel.text = @"Name";
 cell.detailTextLabel.text = entree.title;
break;
    case 1:
cell.textLabel.text = @"Date";
cell.detailTextLabel.text = [self.dateFormatter stringFromDate:entree.date];
break;
    case 2:
 //aNote = entree.notes;
 if ([[cell.contentView subviews] count] > 0) {
   id view = [[cell.contentView subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
   UILabel *labelToSize = view;
   [label RAD_resizeLabel:labelToSize WithSystemFontOfSize:kTextViewFontSize];
 } else {
   UILabel *cellLabel;
  cellLabel = [label RAD_newSizedCellLabelWithSystemFontOfSize:kTextViewFontSize];
  [cell.contentView addSubview:cellLabel];
  [cellLabel release];
 }

  cell.textLabel.text = @"Notes";
  cell.detailTextLabel.text = entree.notes;// description];
  break;
 }
  return cell;
}

Where entree is the name of my NSManaged Object, and title, date, notes are the attributes. All I need is to be able to set cell 3, or the notes attribute to a dynamic height so that when they input large amounts of text, that cell and only that cell moves, and everything else stays the same. As you can see, I have been trying some things, I apologize if it has gotten kind of messy, but this current setup of code, produces the images above, which is close, but not quite there. It may just be a quick fix, so if anyone out there can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I wrote a blog post on this as well that provides code for multiple cells. You can read it on Cocoa Is My Girlfriend.

Your code in your answer is unreadable because you didn’t format it correctly. You’ll probably get more/better feedback if you fix that.

Best Regards.