Question

sorry for the silly question, but I’m still in the process of learning Objective-C and iPhone programming.

I’m trying to insert an icon to the left of a UITableView cell. This is from the method (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath :

NSString *imagePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"icon3" ofType:@"png"];
UIImage *icon = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile: imagePath];
cell.imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
cell.imageView.image = icon;

My icon (30w x 44h) MUST be as high as the cell, while at the moment it remains a little space (maybe 1 pixel) above it and below. I tried to change the dimensions of the image with no success and I tried to reduce the height of the cell (with no effect) with (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath.

What can I do?

Eventually I should insert a little space on the left too, but this is secondary.

Thanks very much.

[UPDATE] no problem when the UITableView is not “grouped”

Answer 1

You need to change the height of the row for the cell.imageView to be resized.

implement the following method and return the height of your image.

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

Try also removing the contentMode setting in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method. You can replace all your code with one line as below:

cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"icon3.png"];