I’m developing an iPhone app for iOS 5.1. I built a UIViewController which has a UITableView with a UISearchDisplayController and other views, all somehow related to the table. The UIVIewController is the delegate and the datasource of the table, and makes some customizations (graphical and business-related) to the table and search display controller. So far, everything was OK.
The problem is that now I want to put this same table (maybe with a different sublist of elements, of the same type) in different controllers (different screens of the app). I tried to add the tableView of my controller as a subview in other controllers, but it doesn’t work. I tried to rebuild my table as a subclass of UIView (instead of UIViewController) and add it as a subview, but it neither worked (it loaded the view from a NIB file, but all its properties, including the IBOutlets, where nil or 0x000000).
After searching a lot, I didn’t find any example of how to reuse a tableview in different controllers. Any hint? Any example? Should I build it as a UIViewController or as a UIView? Which class should be the delegate of the table and searchdisplay, keeping in mind that most of the logic I want to reuse is the code in the delegates?
Thank you all in advance
Wouldn’t the easiest solution be to create your own Datasource class (maybe as a singleton) and then reuse this with the other controller? This way, your way of getting and managing the data is abstracted from the way of displaying it. Just the way it should be.
This is what MVC is all about.