Question

In Xcode 4, I create a subclass of UITableViewCell through the “New File…” menu. I checked the “targeted for iPad” and “With XIB for user interface” boxes. Then I immediately start getting build errors to this effect:

Automatic Reference Counting Issue –
Receiver type ‘UITableViewCell’ for instance message does not declare a method with selector ‘viewDidLoad’

I get 4 of these errors, one for each super method called.

Again this is a clean file created from the template with no extra changes. I haven’t had problems with building any other classes that implement functions like viewDidLoad, etc. just UITableViewCell.

Answer 1

UITableViewCell is a subclass of UIView, not UIViewController. The viewDidLoad: method is defined in UIViewController.

You might want to move your code into the initWithStyle:reuseIdentifier: method instead.