Question

I’m trying to set up a UITableView which acts as a form. Each cell has within it a UILabel and a UITextField, so one cell is:

Name          <enter name>
^             ^
UILabel       UITextField

Now, I’m trying to populate the UILabel and the UITextField from a NSDictionary (from a plist), where it’s organized like so:

Root            Type           Value
  Name          String
  Address       String
  City          String

  etc

But in order to get the right labels and textfields in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method, I would have to refer to the Dictionary numerically. Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

No, since elements in an NSDictionary are not ordered.

You should really use an array as the model behind a table view data source. You can easily build one for your case:

NSArray* myArray = [myDict allKeys];

Of course, for your case, a special order would be neccessary. So you would rather build your array using literals:

NSArray* myArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Name", @"Address", @"City", nil];