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iphoneobjective-cuitableview
RandomUser
RandomUser

Reputation: 4220

Having trouble with customized cell UITableView

I am trying to add a customCell which simply will allow me to left align one string, and right align the other. In a previous question someone had suggested the following, but I am having problems getting it to work with my code. Xcode says: RootviewController may not respond to --contentView, and that call [[self contentView] addSubView:item] or [[self contentView] addSubView:rank] will crash my app at runtime

// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
    - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

        static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

        UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
        if (cell == nil) {
            cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];

            UILabel *rank = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5, 5, 100, 20];
            //Mess around with the rects, I am just merely guessing.
            [rank setTag:5];
            [[self contentView] addSubView:rank];
            [rank release];


            UILabel *item = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(110, 5, 220, 20];
            //Important
            [item setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentRight];
            [item setTag:6];
            [[self contentView] addSubView:item];
            [item release];
        }

        UILabel *rank = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:5];
        UILabel *item = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:6];

        rank = @"leftside";
        item = @"rightside";

    }

Thanks for any ideas

Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (2)

Legolas
Legolas

Reputation: 12325

You should be looking at

[cell.contentView addSubview:item];
[cell.contentView addSubview:rank];

rank.text = @"leftside";
item.text = @"rightside";

One more thing to note here. If your UITableView is scrollEnabled, you will have problems with cellReusability and your labels will get messed up with subsequent scrolls. I would suggest that you subclass UITableViewCells and add those in the layout, and then use the CustomUITableViewCells.

Upvotes: 1

jlehr
jlehr

Reputation: 15597

self here is the controller. Instead of making self the receiver, you should be sending contentView to the cell you just created.

Upvotes: 1

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