Question

I want to remove a IBOutlet UIimage from certain table cells:

I have a custom table cell comprising an image, a label, a subtitle…

cellIcon, cellHead, cellStandfirst

Some cells wont have an image, so I want the label and subtitle to extend backwards to fill the space left by the image (Just as a standard UITable behaves if it doesn’t have a custom cell class)

Currently I’m calling

[cell shortCell:cell.bounds.size.width];

from the tableViewController, which calls

- (void)shortCell:(float)myfloat; {
    [cellHead setFrame:CGRectMake(
        CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN, 
        3.0f, 
        myfloat - (CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN * 2), 
        24.0f)];
    [cellStandfirst setFrame:CGRectMake(
        CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN, 
        25.0f, 
        myfloat - (CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN * 2), 
        34.0f)];
}

which works fine but it strikes me that the default table view must remove the image rather than resize the labels.

I tried putting variants of

[cellIcon removeFromSuperview];

in the cell class, and

[cell.cellIcon remove];

in the tableview controller but can’t get anything to work

Is it possible to remove a table cell image from certain cells so the labels resize automatically?

Answer 1

Used this code

if ( __what-test-is-needed__) {
    [cell cellIcon:@"your_image.png"];

} else {
    [cell cellIcon:nil];
    [cell shortCell:cell.bounds.size.width];
}

Then in the cell class

#define CELL_CONTENT_WIDTH 320.0f
#define CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN 10.0f

@implementation StoryCellViewController

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {

    self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
    if (self) {
        // Initialization code.
    }
    return self;
}



- (void)cellHead:(NSString *)_text;{
    cellHead.text = _text;
    //NSLog(@"Width: %f", self.bounds.size.width);
}

- (void)cellIcon:(NSString *)_text;{
    cellIcon.image = [UIImage imageNamed:_text];
}

- (void)cellStandfirst:(NSString *)_text;{
    cellStandfirst.text = _text;


}

- (void)shortCell:(float)myfloat; {
    // NSLog(@"Width: %f", self.bounds.size.width);
    // NSLog(@"Float: %f", myfloat);
    [cellHead setFrame:CGRectMake(
                               CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN, 
                               4.0f, 
                               myfloat - (CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN * 2), 
                               24.0f)];
    [cellStandfirst setFrame:CGRectMake(
                                    CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN, 
                                    26.0f, 
                                    myfloat - (CELL_CONTENT_MARGIN * 2), 
                                    34.0f)];
}

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {

    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];

    // Configure the view for the selected state.
}