iOS IB linking question - controller to view

Hello again,

This is a pretty fundamental question and I don't get how it works.

I have been coding away at individual chunks of an app and I've come to the point where I need to pull stuff together and I've run in to a wall here. I realize I may have been doing this completely wrong to this point.....

My base app consist of a main view with an info button. hit the info button and we flip over to a new view with a navigation controller on top that has 2 buttons. - simple.

I also have a UITableViewController where all the cool stuff is happening. I want to put the UITableView of this UITableViewController into what is left of the UIView below the navigation bar.

I have added the controller to the nib but how do I get the 'table view' under 'Settings Table View' to sit on my view?

I have tried to add a new table view to the view and linked up the delegate & dataSource. (screenie 2). This is not working and is crashing but without any messages. I imagine that the TableViewController is not initialized.

I've kindof hit the wall here. How do I do this?
Back to basics as well, have I been doing this right or should I have approached this completely different?

I have once again had more luck abandoning IB.

I have removed all references I did and reverted to screenie 1 in the first post.

Then in the controller where I have the view I want to add my controller to I have done this:


And the view loads - but it loads on top of the navigation bar so that's no good. I guess my first question stands.

dejo said:

I'd probably favor a non-IB approach for this as well. It's probably just a matter of setting the frame, especially the origin, for the table view correctly. (Exercise left to the reader: set the autoresizing mask appropriately as well. )

But I would make sure you are instantiating a table view controller instead of just a table view. Something like:

Code:

	SettingsTableViewController *settings = [[SettingsTableViewController alloc] init];
	self.settingsTableViewController = settings;
	settings.view.frame = CGRectMake(x, y, width, height);
	[self.view addSubview:settings.view];
	[settings release];

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That is pretty much spot on what I ended up doing.

I'm brand new to objective-c and the interface builder in particular. Is it common that there are tasks the IB simply can't do? What can be done in the IB gets done real quick so it's a massive time saver when you can use it.

I suppose, should I spend more effort trying to learn IB or are there things like this task that are just better suited to do programmatically?

Right, so I am doing it wrong. I was expecting as much.

I will digest for a bit and get back with followup questions. Thanks!

Ok, take 2 at this. Using a "utility application" template in xcode.

Main view, no problem. Touch the info button and the second view is loaded.

The template provide you with a UIView with a UINavigationBar. The controller created extends UIViewController.

I have copy/pasted all my code from my old controller that was extending UITableViewController into the new one created that extends UIViewController.

The tableView holds cells with a bunch of buttons each and in order to figure out which cell and button the request came from I've the following and it's somewhat broken in the new controller:


So for this to work I need to be able to be able to call the tableView within the view itself. Something like self.view.tableview - is this correct approach? If it is, how do I do it?

Or if this is wrong, how do I figure out which button in which cell was pressed?

Hey Phoney,

while trying to figure this one out I came across an old post of yours: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/577677/

After setting and linking in IB an outlet for a 'tableView' property the above code works!

thanks!