Question

I’m building an app where I use custom tableView Cells and i’m not really sure, if I do it right:
I’m not really sure about the cellOwner for example…

And the basic problem is, that all outlets that I defined and hocked up in IB, are nil at runtime.
Here is what I did:

• build a custom subclass of UITableViewCell (ProductListTableViewCell)
• made a nib, containing a UITableViewCell as root element
• set both the className and the owners Type of the cell to ProductListTableViewCell
• set the reuse identifier
• then put a couple of Labels etc onto the cell and generated the outlets via drag and drop
• double checked that all outlets are hocked up correctly.

The outlets however are all nil.
What am I doing wrong ?

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"ProductListTableViewCell";

ProductListTableViewCell *cell =(ProductListTableViewCell*) [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    ProductListTableViewCell *cellOwner = [[ProductListTableViewCell alloc]init];

    UINib* nib = [UINib nibWithNibName:@"ProductListTableViewCell" bundle:nil];

    cell =(ProductListTableViewCell*) [[nib instantiateWithOwner:cellOwner options:nil]objectAtIndex:0];

}
// all outlets are nil here

Answer 1

try this

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"ProductListTableViewCell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"ProductListTableViewCell" owner:self options:nil];
    cell = ProductListTableViewCell;
    self.ProductListTableViewCell=nil;

}