Question

I made a custom cell with a XIB:
.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface TWCustomCell : UITableViewCell {
    IBOutlet UILabel *nick;
    IBOutlet UITextView *tweetText;
}

@end

.m

#import "TWCustomCell.h"

@implementation TWCustomCell

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier
{
    self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
    if (self) {
        // Initialization code
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];

    // Configure the view for the selected state
}

@end

And I load them in cellForRowAtIndexPath: in this way:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)_tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    TWCustomCell *cell = (TWCustomCell*)[self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    //UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        NSArray *topLevelObject = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"TWCustomCell" owner:nil options:nil];

        for (id currentObject in topLevelObject) {
            if([currentObject isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]]) {
                cell = (TWCustomCell*) currentObject;
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    // Configure the cell...
    cell.tweetText.text = [tweets objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}

On cell.tweetText.text = [tweets objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
On the dot after cell, Xcode tells me_ “Property ‘tweetText’ not found on object of type ‘TWCustomCell *’; did you mean to access ivar ‘tweetText’?” and tells me to replace it with
cell->tweetText.text. But there appears the error: “Semantic Issue: Instance variable ‘tweetText’ is protected”. What do I have to do?

Answer 1

The problem was with my custom cell ivars:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface TWCustomCell : UITableViewCell {
    //added here @public and you can access them now
    @public
    IBOutlet UILabel *nick;
    IBOutlet UITextView *tweetText;
}

@end