Hi everyone,
I am building a custom, in-application settings view based on UITableViewCellStyle1 (or so). I'm trying to dynamically calculate the width of the left label (title) of a cell in order to determine how wide my text field on the right can be. When I launch the app in the simulator and the view loads, the width of the title labels is zero UNTIL i scroll down the view and a cell isn't visible, then when I scroll back up the size adjusts as expected. I believe this might have to do something with cell reusage, but I don't know how it works exactly. And what I need is simply the title labels in the cells to have their correct width is when the view loads in the first place, not after they have gone out of sight one time.
- (UITableViewCell*)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath
{
static NSString* reuseIdentifier = @"SettingsCell";
UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if ( !cell )
{
cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue1 reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier] autorelease];
[cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor baeDarkGrayColor]];
UILabel* cellLabel = [cell textLabel];
[cellLabel setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[cellLabel setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[cell setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray];
}
// Populate cell with corresponding data.
NSDictionary* tableSection = [_tableData objectAtIndex:indexPath.section];
// Set the label
UILabel* textLabel = [cell textLabel];
NSString* labelString = [[tableSection objectForKey:@"itemTitles"] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
[textLabel setText:labelString];
// CGSize constrainedSize;
// constrainedSize.width = MAXFLOAT;
// constrainedSize.height = MAXFLOAT;
CGSize textLabelSize = [textLabel.text sizeWithFont:textLabel.font /*constrainedToSize:constrainedSize*/];
NSLog(@"text label width: %f", textLabelSize.width);
// Set the accessory view
BAESettingsTableCellAccessoryType accessoryType = [[[tableSection objectForKey:@"itemAccessories"] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] integerValue];
switch ( accessoryType )
{
case BAESettingsTableCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator:
{
UIImageView* disclosureView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"AccessoryDisclosure.png"]];
[cell setAccessoryView:disclosureView];
[disclosureView release];
break;
}
case BAESettingsTableCellAccessoryOnOffSwitch:
{
UISwitch* onOffSwitch = [[UISwitch alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
[onOffSwitch setOn:YES];
[cell setAccessoryView:onOffSwitch];
[onOffSwitch release];
break;
}
case BAESettingsTableCellAccessoryNone:
// default:
// break;
{
CGRect cellFrame = [cell frame];
float detailTextFieldWidth = cellFrame.size.width - ( textLabelSize.width + 50 );
float detailTextFieldHeight = cellFrame.size.height - 1;
NSLog(@"detail text field calculated frame width, height, %f, %f", detailTextFieldWidth, detailTextFieldHeight);
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(cellFrame.origin.x, cellFrame.origin.y, detailTextFieldWidth, detailTextFieldHeight);
UITextField* textField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
NSString* detailLabelString = [[tableSection objectForKey:@"itemDetailStrings"] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
textField.text = detailLabelString;
textField.textColor = cell.detailTextLabel.textColor;
textField.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
[cell setAccessoryView:textField];
[textField release];
break;
}
}
return cell;
}
Thanks, Lex