Setting custom UITableViewCells height

Question

I am using a custum UITableViewCell , which has some labels , buttons imageviews to be displayed.There is one label in the cell whose text is a NSString object and the length of string could be variable , due to this i cannot set a constant height to the cell in UITableViews : heightForCellAtIndex method.The ceels height depends on the labels height , whcich can be determined using the NSStrings sizeWithFont method . i tried using it , but looks like i m going wrong somewhere . Can anyone help me out in this , adding the code used in iniatilizing the cell

if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier])
{
       self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"dot.png"];
    imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
    imageView.frame = CGRectMake(45.0,10.0,10,10);

    headingTxt = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:   CGRectMake(60.0,0.0,150.0,post_hdg_ht)];
    [headingTxt setContentMode: UIViewContentModeCenter];
    headingTxt.text = postData.user_f_name;
    headingTxt.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:13];
    headingTxt.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
    headingTxt.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];


    dateTxt = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(55.0,23.0,150.0,post_date_ht)];
    dateTxt.text = postData.created_dtm;
    dateTxt.font = [UIFont italicSystemFontOfSize:11];
    dateTxt.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
    dateTxt.textColor = [UIColor grayColor];


    NSString * text1 = postData.post_body;
    NSLog(@"text length = %d",[text1 length]);
    CGRect bounds = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
    CGFloat tableViewWidth;
    CGFloat width = 0;
    tableViewWidth = bounds.size.width/2;
    width = tableViewWidth - 40; //fudge factor
    //CGSize textSize = {width, 20000.0f}; //width and height of text area
    CGSize textSize = {245.0, 20000.0f}; //width and height of text area
    CGSize size1 = [text1 sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:11.0f]
                     constrainedToSize:textSize lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
    CGFloat ht = MAX(size1.height, 28); 
    textView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(55.0,42.0,245.0,ht)];
    textView.text = postData.post_body;
    textView.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:11];
    textView.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
    textView.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    textView.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
    textView.numberOfLines = 3;
    textView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;


    [self.contentView addSubview:imageView];
    [self.contentView addSubview:textView];
    [self.contentView addSubview:webView];
    [self.contentView addSubview:dateTxt];
        [self.contentView addSubview:headingTxt];
    [self.contentView sizeToFit];

            [imageView release];
    [textView release];
    [webView release];
    [dateTxt release];
    [headingTxt release];

}

textView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(55.0,42.0,245.0,ht)]; this is the label whose height and widh are going wrong

Answer 1

Your UITableViewDelegate should implement tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return [indexPath row] * 20;
}

You will probably want to use NSString's sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: method to calculate your row height rather than just performing some silly math on the indexPath :)

Answer 2

in a custom UITableViewCell -controller add this

-(void)layoutSubviews {  

    CGRect newCellSubViewsFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height);
    CGRect newCellViewFrame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x, self.frame.origin.y, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height);

    self.contentView.frame = self.contentView.bounds = self.backgroundView.frame = self.accessoryView.frame = newCellSubViewsFrame;
    self.frame = newCellViewFrame;

    [super layoutSubviews];
}

In the UITableView -controller add this

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return [indexPath row] * 1.5; // your dynamic height...
}