Question

I’ve spent the last 3 hours scratching my head at this issue because all seems correct, except I can’t get through to my tableviewcell class to set the uilabels in my custom cell.

here is my code

    - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
        static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"TableViewCell";
        UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];

        if (cell == nil) {
            NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"TableViewCell" owner:self options:nil];
        cell = (UITableViewCell *)[nib objectAtIndex:0];


            //cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:MyIdentifier] autorelease];
        }

        //cell.imageViewSection =

        // Set up the cell
        int storyIndex = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] - 1];

        NSString *textTitle = [[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey: @"title"];

        NSURL *imageurl = [NSURL URLWithString:[[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey: @"description"]];
        UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageurl]];



        cell.imageViewSection = image;
        cell.titleLabelText.text = textTitle;

return cell;

}

If someone can help me out it would be awesome 🙂

Answer 1

You should not rely on the cell always being returned as object at index 0 in the array. Do a simple loop to find the actual cell.

And add typecasts for the cell subclass you use

-(UITableViewCell*)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView
       cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath
{
    static NSString* cellID = @"cellID";
    MyCell* cell = (id)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellID];
    if (cell == nil) {
        NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"TableViewCell" 
                                                     owner:self 
                                                   options:nil];
        for (cell in nib) {
            if ([cell isKindOfClass:[MyCell class]]) {
                break;
            }
        }
     }
     // Safely do tuff to cell
     return cell;
}

This snippet assumes that the cell is at least available, the behavior if no table view cell is returned is undefined.