Can a table view have it's own distinct header and footer?
When I have a table view with some sections which have their own headers and footers, could that table view also have it's very own header and footer with a customized look/content? ...
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Can a plain style table view have sections?
From the docs: A plain-style table view is an unbroken list; a grouped table view has visually distinct sections. So in plain style, I can't have any sections? Or if I had some, they could not be visually distinct? Is that right? ...
UITableView scroll performance paradoxon: Make subviews or use -drawRect: ?
I was reading thourg this example (link)... From the description, this seems paradox to me: When implementing a table view cell, there's a tension between optimal scrolling performance and optimal edit/reordering performance. You should typically use subviews in the cell's content view. When you have an edit or reorde...
Can I have cells with different hight in an UITableView?
I need to present some information in a table view where some information is pretty flat, and other is pretty big. i.e. one information is just a line of text really, while the other is three lines of text. From what I know, UITableView asks for the hight of all cells. So is there any way to have cells with distinct heights? ...
Is it possible to turn a View-Based App into a navigation-Based App?
I am close to finishing my first application (a UITableView style one) on the iphone but have realised it will look much better, and stand a far better chance of getting through the approval process, if it is presented as a navigation-based app rather than a view-based one - in hindsight my initial choice is not really suitable... Is it...
Getting Tap/Touch Position when selecting a TableView cell
Hi, hope to get some help here because this is something that really makes me mad... I have a view with a tableView, and when I tap a cell I want to present a popOver window pointing the arrow to the cell I tapped. the things that I think I need is: 1- the position of the cell in the screen (not in the view, because on large tables the...
How to create sleek customized buttons, tables and other views for iPhone/iPad apps?
I'm looking to know both what can be customized as well as the recommended way to customize some of the major UIView subclasses in the iPhone SDK (in particular UIButton, UITableView/Cell ... but really open to any of the views in the SDK). Any recommended tutorials? Examples? Are there bad practices that can actually hinder perfo...
UITableView performance difference between Iphone 3G and 3GS ?
Hey guys, I managed to put my new app on an adhoc distribution but I just noticed that I only have 3GS's ... It is working quite good on the 3GS (could be a bit faster but that's fine) ... but do you think I should test it on the 3G ? I know there has been a lot of improvements between 3G and 3GS but would that infer on my uitablevie...
getting data from tableviewcell to 2nd view
I am very new to this and am trying to learn by creating a few little apps for myself. I have a navigation-based app where the user taps the row to select a film title - i then want the second view to show details of the film. Thanks to a very helpful person here i am getting the results of the row pressed as 'rowTitle' as follows : (...
In short, how is NSFetchedResultsController used?
I'm reading now since one hour through the documentation and still don't get the point of NSFetchedResultsController. Is it a replacement for UITableViewController? Or is the UITableViewController using the NSFetchedResultsController? Is the NSFetchedResultsController the data source? What is it? ...
Will Apple reject my app if I do not do this?
From the documentation of UITableView / UITableViewController: If you decide to use a UIViewController subclass rather than a subclass of UITableViewController to manage a table view, you should perform a couple of the tasks mentioned above to conform to the human-interface guidelines. To clear any selection in th...
Can I provide nil for the -dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: method?
dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: Returns a reusable table-view cell object located by its identifier. (UITableViewCell *)dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier Parameters identifier A string identifying the cell object to be reused. By default, a reusable cell's identifier is its class n...
Create a view like Tweetie's User Profile view
Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone has any idea on how you can create a view that looks like the user profile view in apps like Tweetie, where there are seemingly multiple tables with a couple of normal (straight up and down tables) and then two rows of six cells, which in Tweeties case have the number of followers, following etc. I'm tr...
custom cells uitableview - cannot display all the rows
Hi guys, I'm creating a uitableview with custom cells which I created in Interface Builder. There are currently three cells (UITableViewCell). I have a UITableView which is on the view. The code I have is fairly standard, but I cannot work out how to actually SHOW the three custom cells. I am using the cellForRowAtIndexPath method. ...
Show blank UITableViewCells in custom UITableView
I am trying to customize a UITableView. So far, it looks good. But when I use a custom UITableViewCell sub-class, I do not get the blank table cells when there's only 3 cells: Using the default TableView style I can get the repeating blank rows to fill the view (for example, the mail application has this). I tried to set a backgroundC...
Why does UITableViewCell have a contentView property?
What's the point of this contentView property? I mean: Why aren't all the subviews just added to self? Let me get that right: Every cell is a view (UITabvleViewCell is a UIView subclass). And this fat view has another fat view with same bounds sitting on top of it, called contentView. That contentView then carries all those other subvie...
Groupted table view cells not loading.
Hi, I'm working on creating a grouped table view. The data is being loaded alright, but in the grouped view there are a lot of white empty spaces. They get populated after I scroll up and down a few times. Help? Here's my getCellForRowIndexAtPath method: static NSString *Id= @"CustomDiagChargeID"; CustomCellDiagCharges *cell = (Custom...
UITableView section index overlaps search bar
Hi: I want to display a section index in an UITableView with a search bar in the table view header (not section header). But the index strip is now overlapping the search bar. Is there an elegant solution to avoid this and let the index start below the table header? ...
remove image from tableViewCell created programatically
Hello, I would like to move an imageView contained on a cell and it works but creating a new image at new position keeping old image (then two are shown). How could I remove old one?? used code: UIImage *cellImage = [UIImage imageNamed:(@"%@", showIconName)]; UIImageView *imageViewToPutInCell = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:cellIma...
Update UIViewTableCell's background when accessory URL is clicked
In the tableView:accessoryButtonTappedForRowWithIndexPath: selector, I want to update the backgroundColor of the cell. I can get the UIViewTableCell using cellForRowAtIndexPath: but I'm not sure how I can update its background color. The code beliw doesn't seem to work. [_tableView beginUpdates]; cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor...