Question

I have put an UITableView inside a UIViewController and have copied code from UITableViewController over to my UIViewController to have it fulfill “Table data protocols” with UITableViewControllers default implementation and am following http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/TableView_iPhone/CreateConfigureTableView/CreateConfigureTableView.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007451-CH6-SW10s chapter “Creating a Table View Programmatically” (with using ViewDidLoad instead of LoadView as I use IB and have a nib, I created an outlet for the UITableView named tableView).

Now in above links chapter the UITableView is assigned to self.view which is the UIView property of the UIViewController. Then scrolling the UITableView is working but the UITableView fills the entire screen hiding other view content such as an UIToolbar – probably as it is the sole content after being assigned to the view property.

If I omit the assignment, the other view content is in place an everything is sized properly, however the UITableView doesn’t scroll.

How do I achieve scrolling of the UITableView inside an UIViewController with the UIVC having static content (such as a toolbar)?

Here’s the relevant code:

// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    tableView.delegate = self;
    tableView.dataSource = self;
    [tableView reloadData];
    //self.view = tableView;
}

Answer 1

If you have other content in the view controller that you are adding in interface builder then this will be part of the UIViewController’s .view property – when you assign the table view to this, you are removing all that content.

If your table view is appearing normally but is not scrolling (how about selection? Does that work?) you may have disabled user interaction on it.

You have mentioned in comments that there is nothing but empty cells in your table view – I think this is the cause of your problem. I have just created a sample project where I have added in a table view as a subview of the view controller’s view, and scrolling is fine – this is with me populating 100 dummy rows in there. If I don’t return anything for the datasource and delegate methods, then the table view does not scroll.