Question

I have a custom cell with UITextView in it. The length of text that I’m loading to this UITextView changes from very short to very long. So please, don’t say “use a label instead“. I want to keep my cells in same height but to use vertical scrolling of UITextView if the text is too long.

I have tried the method here but since I am using custom cell initializing in my cellForRowAtIndexPath event, the observer didn’t work. I tried same method in my cell class under initWithStyle function, didn’t work either.

What else do you suggest? Or should I work this function in a different way? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In your TableView dataSource –

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

    NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];

    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"myCell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    } else { // if there is already a subview, remove it
        while ([[cell.contentView subviews] count] > 0) {
            UIView *labelToClear = [[cell.contentView subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
            [labelToClear removeFromSuperview];
        }
    }


    UITextView *myTextView = // initialise your textView here, including setting its contentOffset

    [cell.contentView addSubview:myTextView];

    return cell;

}