Question

I have an UITabView iPad app, using XCode 4.5, Storyboards and iOS 6. I have a UIView scene, with two UITableViews (one in the upper left quadrant, the other at the bottom half of the UIVIew). My problem is that I need to identify which UITableView is being referenced for numberOfRowsInSection and also cellForRowAtIndexPath. I have given both UITableViews names:

I don’t think this is correct because when I but a breakpoint on the numberOfRowsInSection it arbitrarily selects the lower UITableView (previousAppointments), never selecting the upper UITableView (clientList). Code is follows:

//------------------------------------------------
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if (tableView == clientList)  {
        int y = listOfClients.count;
        return 1;  //  return list of clients          <---------  TODO
    }
    else if(tableView == previousAppointments) {
        return 2;  //  return number of appointments for this client    <------------ TODO
    }

    return 1;
}

I need to be able to identify which UITableView is selected so I can populate it with the correct data.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should set up IBOutlets to each table view, and use that outlet name in the if statement