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varun thomas
varun thomas

Reputation: 357

Removing old data from reusable cell

I have a uitableview with each cell having a scroll view as the subview. the scrollview has a bunch of images in it. so when i change the data in the data source and after calling the reload table the images doesn't change but when i remove the dequeue the new data is reloaded. is there any method to remove the contents in the dequeue so that i don't get the old data

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{   
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"looser"];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault       reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
         scrollview=[[myscrollView alloc]initwitharray:imagearray];
         [cell.contentView addSubview:scrollview];
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6234

Answers (4)

biloshkurskyi.ss
biloshkurskyi.ss

Reputation: 1436

Create a custom cell and it generates a method

- (void) prepareForReuse{}

Which do you cleanse all data from a cell and the output will be an empty cell.

Upvotes: 6

Aberrant
Aberrant

Reputation: 3431

A tableview works as follows:

It has room for a certain amount of cells on the screen, let's say 7 as an example. The tableview will ask you for the 7 cells of indexes 0 through 6.

If the top cell leaves the screen by scrolling, it will be placed in the reusable cell queue. There are now 6 cells on the tableview.

A new one comes up at the bottom now, the tableview asks for the cell at index 7. You call dequeueReusableCell, and you get the one that was at the top earlier.

The tableView has no idea what your cell is like, as it can be subclassed, so it will not make any changes to it. It is up to you to use your knowledge of how the tablecell is constructed to empty it, then fill it with the correct new data.

The reason tableview works like this is for performance. In stead of having maybe 100 views that would have to be checked (or mostly, ignored, which also costs time) for every scroll movement, it has a maximum of 7.

So in short, no. There are no default methods to remove data from reusable cells in UITableView, since UITableView can not and should not know what kind of cells they are. It is up to you to clear the cells when the tableview gives them to you.

Upvotes: 11

progrmr
progrmr

Reputation: 77191

No, not while the cell is in the cache. When you dequeue a reusable cell you should clear out the old data first before using it again.

Upvotes: 0

Hot Licks
Hot Licks

Reputation: 47729

Maybe you should just remove the stuff you don't want.

Upvotes: -1

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