Question

I’ve got a UITableView set up and working, and now I have a little issue. I need to reload the tableView’s data whenever the view loads, and one thing which I can’t get working is attempting to reload the data, when there was no data in the table view to begin with.

Basically the list is of variable length, and the contents are loaded from a file, what I want to know is, is there I way I can force the table to reload and not have it ignore the datasource methods, as is what happens whenever [tableView reloadData] is called.

Answer 1

[tableView reloadData] relies entirely on the data source methods! So, the only way you would see your data source methods beind ignored would be that you have not set the data source (and perhaps delegate) of your table view to be the object you want to be the data source. You can set these through Interface Builder, or programatically, e.g.:

tableView.dataSource = self;
tableView.delegate = self;