trouble with section headers in UITableView

Question

hi guys , im having a problem with setting my section headers in a uitableview, its probably something really simple i just cant work it out.

instead of displaying different headers for different sections it displays the same header for each section

help me please :)

    - (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;

    return [appDelegate.matchFixtures count];
}

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {


    WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
    Fixtures *fixtures = [appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section];

    return fixtures.matchDate;

}

Answer 1

Try like this

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:      (NSInteger)section {
NSString *title = nil;
// Return a title or nil as appropriate for the section.
switch (section) {
    case 0:
        title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
        break;
    case 1:
        title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
        break;
    case 2:
        title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
return title;
 }

Edit

Set the date properly with retain in the delegate class.Even i had some problems similar when storing values in delegates.

- (void)setCurrentDates:(NSString *)value {
[value retain]; // <- Retain new value
[date release]; // <- Release old value;
date = value;
}

All the best.

Answer 2

Your original code looks okay. I'm betting that appDelegate.matchFixtures doesn't contain the data you think it does. Modify your code to look like this:

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
  WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;

  NSLog(@"appDelegate.matchFixtures.count = %i", appDelegate.matchFixtures.count);

  return [appDelegate.matchFixtures count];
}

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 
titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {

  WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
  Fixtures *fixtures = [appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section];

  NSLog(@"For section %i, fixtures.matchDate = %@", section, fixtures.matchDate);

  return fixtures.matchDate;
}

And look at the log output in the debug console.