UITableView background showing in Interface Builder but in simulator

Question

Hi all,

does anyone know why, if I add an image UIImage as background, I can clearly see it behind my grouped table view in Interface Builder. However when I launch the app, the background is not showing at all, both in simulator and device.

Apart from adding the image, I suppose I already did all the steps at TableView programmatic side:

self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.tableView.opaque = NO;
self.tableView.backgroundView = nil;

thanks

Answer 1

I am having very similar, if not same, issue. Ive lost so many hours with this... i curse the Interface Builder all the time now. Things show up (as expected) in IB, but in simulator things are totally not what I see in IB. How unacceptable is this? I really hope there is something going on in code that im over-looking.

Answer 2

Following a post I made, I found two possible solutions, one with UIViewController in place of UITableVIewController as discussed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3693978/uitableview-with-fixed-image-background

with a disadvantage of header and footer problem with grouped table.

The other solution, involves writing more code and could be the case only if you have a common table that you share within different views of the apps: basically is to have a UIViewController calling a UITableViewController and attach its subview to self.view.