Question

I have a custom UITableViewCell which contains several UIButtons. Each button’s frame position is relative to the cell width. I set autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth so it will adjust the cell width and the button positions properly when the application starts with the device either in landscape or portrait mode.

The issue is when the device is rotated from one mode to the other, the buttons do not adjust positions because the UITableViewCell is reusable. In other words, the cell is not initialized based on the new UITalbeView width because the cell’s function initWithStyle is called before the device is rotated and is not called again after the device rotation. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

After spending hours of research (including posts in this site), I could not find any solutions. But a light bulb turns on all of a sudden. The solution is very simple. Just detect whether the device orientation is landscape or portrait mode and define the ReusableCellIdentifier with a different name for each.

static NSString*Identifier;

if ([UIDevice currentDevice].orientation!=UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft && [UIDevice currentDevice].orientation!=UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
                Identifier= @"aCell_portrait";
            }
            else Identifier= @"DocumentOptionIdentifier_Landscape";


    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:Identifier];