Question

I have a view controller where I programmatically add the UITableView. However, I would like to use IB to create my custom UITableViewCell to be used in my programmatically create UITableView. How would I do this if I don’t have a UITableView in the controller in IB since I create it programmatically?

I’m using Xcode 4.2.1 with storyboards.

Answer 1

Just create the UITableView programmatically as usual, and in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method use

id cell = [dataTable dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:itemType];
if(!cell)
{
    NSArray *topLevelObject = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:itemType owner:nil options:nil];
    cell = [topLevelObject objectAtIndex:0];
}

where itemType is a String with the name of your xib file.