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Asked: 2026-05-27T23:47:07+00:00

I have been struggling to understand the difference between Storyboards and coding in Objective-C.

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I have been struggling to understand the difference between Storyboards and coding in Objective-C. It appears you can create a UITableView by both dragging the object into your Storyboard, or coding in a new view within Objective-C.

The problem is that I want to keep my Storyboard as slim as possible. So I’m trying to build and populate a UITableView with an NSArray of 5 strings. My code will only run 1 row before returning a compiler error… I am going to scrap the whole project and start fresh.

I would be very grateful if somebody familiar with the new Xcode 4.2/iOS5/Storyboards can provide a reasonable solution for building the UITableView. I know this is such a basic task which is why it’s so frustrating to begin with. I can get the Table View working, but I cannot seem to get an Array to dynamically fill and create #X number of rows…

Let me know if I can provide any more info. I’ve tried to be as straightforward as possible – just need to get a TableView working and populate with an Array 🙂

EDIT – here is my project source code you can download to check out where I’m at.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The reason it crashes is that in the storyboard you have to change the tableview to dynamic prototypes instead of static cells.
    For some reason Static Cells is the default setting. Once you get the hang of the Storyboards it’s great, especially when dealing with tableviews. Your initial View is set up as the NavigationController which has your MasterviewController as the RootViewController, so it’s being loaded as the firstView. Click on the TableView in the MainStoryboard and change the Cels to Dynamic Prototypes or it will use the static ones that you create right in the storyboard. You can make custom cells right on the tableview in the storyboard. One more thing to note is the re-use identifier has to be set to the same name in the storyboard and the TableViewController.
    You can also just up the count of static cells to the number you want if you know it will always be the same.

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