Question

I have created a static table cell in a .xib, however when it is displayed the cell height set in the xib is not being applied, instead the cell is being displayed with what looks like the default height for cells.

I have set things up as:

1) The table view controller derives from UITableViewController

2) The TVC is not contained within a xib and is created in code in the app delegate and added to a tab bar controller.

3) The TVC is created using initWithNibName:bundle: with the nib name supplied as the name of the xib containing the table view and the static table cell.

4) The TVC has an IBOutlet iVar of type UITableViewCell*

5) cellForRowAtIndexPath returns this iVar.

6) numberOfRowsInSection returns 1, numberOfSectionsInTableView returns 1;

7) The xib contains a table view, which is connected to the File’s Owner’s view. The File’s Owner is set to my custom table view controller class.

8) The UITableViewCell in the xib is connected to the outlet of type UITableViewCell in the File’s Owner.

9) THe Table view style in the xib is set to grouped.

10) The size of the Table View Cell shown in the size inspector is N, and this is where the problem is. If I change N manually or by resizing the cell visual representation then this size is not applied when the table is drawn. I have also tried setting the view Frame Rectangle height in the size inspector to match.
It doesn’t matter what value N is, big or small.

11) The cell’s height is not being set anywhere in the TVC, if I do set it using self.tableView.rowHeight then its height does change. But I do not want to set it explicitly like this, I want the height size in the xib to be picked up.

This has been driving me nuts for a few days, and reading several tutorials on table views (including Apple’s table view programming guide, especially the section on static cells, whose instructions I followed in the first place to set everything up) has not given me any clues where the problem lies.

TIA

Answer 1

Implement heightForRowAtIndexPath and return the height of the UITableViewCell linked to in your IBOutlet.