Comments on: UITableViewCell Dynamic Height

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:52:36 +0000

@Jaime,

You can shoot me an email at matt at cimgf dot com with any questions you have. I will not be at NSCoder night tomorrow night, but I should be next week.

-Matt

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:47:58 +0000

Hi Matt, I was working with you at NSCoder last Tuesday. I am using your dynamic height tableCell tutorial to set up the table cells. I am also using SQLite to populate the table cells. We created a NSMutableArray in my class that sets up the field connections to my database.

Basically, I am having a problem with it and wondered if we could talk off-line about the problem and I can give you some code examples.

Thanks, Jaime

By: Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:58:45 +0000

Thanks for the great post!

I agree with a couple of the commenters, surely the label should be released after being added to the view? At least I didn't realise until Xcode's Analyze spotted the potential leak.

In the last code listings, I set line 21 to [label release]; and that seems to work perfectly, and xcode is happy too. :)

By: Ruchi

Ruchi — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:42:26 +0000

Should we release the label that we created? I tried doing it but the app became unstable and would freeze on scrolling likely as it was trying to access label that no longer existed. Thanks!

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By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:42:08 +0000

Thanks Matt, Your suggestions worked. I had typed in all of the information, so I copied from your sample program and the cell heights did what they were supposed to do. I also added the QuartzCore framework, so now the border shows as well.

On to the next challenge! Jaime

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:39:59 +0000

@Jaime

If you're calling setBorderWidth on the layer and you're getting a warning, it means you haven't added the QuartzCore.framework to your project and you haven't added #import to your source file--I normally place it in my prefix.pch file.

The overlapping you are experiencing could be caused by any number of things. I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Most likely you are not setting your cell height correctly. This is something you have to calculate yourself which is the whole point of this tutorial. Did you download the code example project or are you just copy/pasting from the text of the blog post? It would probably be easier if you just grabbed the whole project and started from there rather than trying to write it from the ground up.

-Matt

By: Jaime

Jaime — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:33:34 +0000

You are right Matt, I had a capital on 'set'. I changed it to lower case and I still get the warning and when I run the program, it doesn't show the border.

One other question. Why are my table cells over lapping each other? At first I was still seeing the table view lines, but got rid of them. Now when I have a cell that is larger then the normal table view cell, it over laps the next cell.

Any suggestions as to fix both of these things?

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:36:14 +0000

@Jaime,

Your capitalization is wrong. It should be [[label layer] setBorderWidth:2.0f]; Notice 'set' starts with a lowercase rather than uppercase letter. The sample has this correct so you must be typing it in directly?

-Matt

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:26:08 +0000

Hi, I like your tutorial, but I have one problem. I don't know if it is the newer version of XCode, or what but this line does not work: [[label layer] SetBorderWidth:2.0f];

It says that "no SetBorderWidth method found. I would like to add a border to my text fields and can't figure out how to do it. Can you help?

By: glt

glt — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:22:41 +0000

Hi, I love your tutorial: it's really useful! I was trying to implement those methods in my project and succeeded. Then I tried to make the TableView sectioned but failed. I know it's really simple and I know I should know this but I'm having bad times with it :(. Can you help me? How can I change your demo, let's work on it, to make it a sectioned TableView?

Thanx

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:20:19 +0000

@davidm

I know what you're referring to, but haven't actually tried implementing it before. I would guess that you probably have to calculate the current text height yourself and then resize the text view and then resize the table cell accordingly, but I'm not sure. There might be something simpler. You might want to try to ask the question on Stack Overflow. There are lots of very knowledgeable folks there.

By: davidm

davidm — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:21:29 +0000

I am trying to create a table cell with a UITextView inside it, so that the cell grows as the user types in more text. This behavior is seen in the Contacts application on the iPad. I’m having all kinds of trouble with this; do you have any pointers?

By: At Scout Camp Last Week

At Scout Camp Last Week — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:16:01 +0000

[...] I found some help over at Cocoa is My Girlfriend. Matt Long wrote up a post on how to create UITableViewCell’s with Dynamic Height. I still need to customize for my specific needs, but it was a great help for getting me past this [...]

By: gammapoint

gammapoint — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:43:02 +0000

Good tutorial.

May want to release label after adding to content view -Kept getting error on the border setup so used the label background color for testing layouts.

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:40:16 +0000

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By: StijnSpijker

StijnSpijker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:50:45 +0000

Heh, this is a really nice tutorial, I actually only use the label resizing part for some other components, but it's nice either way!

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Thanks!