Question

So I was wondering if it is possible to display a small image in a detailTextLabel of a cell? (I’m getting the image from a URL) I tried it with:

NSString *thumbs = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", TableText3];
cell.detailTextLabel.text = thumbs;

Which for obvious reason doesn’t work. I also tried with:

UIImage *thumbs = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:
                                          [NSURL URLWithString:TableText3]]];
cell.detailTextLabel.text = thumbs;

Which also (obviously) doesn’t work, because I’m passing an image to a string parameter.

Surprisingly I didn’t find anything on the WWW. (Search parameters were: “image in detailTextLabel” or picture or just textlabel and image and various variations)

Answer 1

Rather than putting the image in the imageView property, you could create an UIImageView and place it in the accessoryView property:

UIImage     * thumbs;
UIImageView * thumbsView;
CGFloat       width;

thumbs             = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:
                              [NSURL URLWithString:TableText3]]];
thumbsView         = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:thumbs] autorelease];
width              = (cell.frame.size.height * thumbs.size.width) / thumbs.size.height;
thumbsView.frame   = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, cell.frame.size.height);
cell.accessoryView = thumbsView;

This will size the image to fit within the cell and position it to the right of the textLabel and detailTextLabel.