Question

I have a basic view with a UITextField and a Tableview. I am able to enter text to the TextView and capture the value through an IBOutlet and IBAction.

My IBAction is setMyNote within which I call the cellForRow… method.

In my cellForRow.. method I have this snippet code

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}

NSString *enNote = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:enteredNote.text];

NSInteger nRow = [indexPath row];
switch (nRow) {
    case 1:
        cell.textLabel.text = enNote;
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
[enNote release];
return cell;

}

When I run my debugger, I can see that enNote has the new text I entered on the textView and it seems to get assigned to my cell.textLabel.text too — but my table does not show this new text. What am I missing?

Answer 1

You shouldn’t call the cellForRow directly.

When the table view renders itself it calls the cellForRow method in order to create the cells that should be visible.

I think that you should update your table view data source instead of trying to update the cell directly and then reload the table view ([tableView reloadData];).