Multiple Custom Cells in one Table

[starwarsdevwookie59]

Im trying to make a table with headers and different types of cells that are made in ib... I know how to do it with one customcell but how can i use different ones?

header---
custom1---
custom2---

header---
custom3---
custom3---

etc... Any help would be great thanks!

[BrianSlick]

Switch off using the indexPath, use multiple identifiers, etc. The process really isn't any different.

[smithdale87]

I'll assume you know how to create multiple custom cells. This is how you use them now...

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
     static NSString* [] cellIdentifiers = { @"cellID1" , @"cellID2", ... };
      
     UITableViewCell* cell;
     int customCellType  = // this is for you to figure out.
     
     cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: cellIdentifiers[ customCellType ]];
 
     if( cell ==nil )
     {
        switch( customCellType )
        {
          case 0:
               cell = [[[CustomCell1 alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault  reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifiers[customCellType] ] autorelease];
               break;
          case 1:
               cell = [[CustomCell2 alloc] ...
               break;
          }
      }
   }      
}

[dana0550]

Originally Posted by BrianSlick

Switch off using the indexPath, use multiple identifiers, etc. The process really isn't any different.

Can you please clarify what you mean? I have tried using multiple identifiers and I am still not able to cell multiple custom cells to appear.

Thanks,
Dana

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)atableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier1 = @"Apple";
    Apple *cell1 = (Apple *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier1];
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier2 = @"Banana";
    Banana *cell2 = (Banana *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier2];
    
    switch (indexPath.row) {
        case 0:
            [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"Apple" owner:self options:nil];
            cell1 = [self appleCell];
            [self setappleCell:nil];
            break;
        case 1:
            [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"Banana" owner:self options:nil];
            cell2 = [self bananaCell];
            [self setbananaCell:nil];
            break;
            
        default:
            break;
    }
    return cell1;
}

[BrianSlick]

You never return cell2.

[dana0550]

Originally Posted by BrianSlick

You never return cell2.

Thanks for the response Brian,

I added return cell2;

I'm still getting the error:

UITableView dataSource must return a cell from tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath

[BrianSlick]

That means cell1 or cell2, whichever is being returned, is nil.

[dana0550]

Interesting, I thought that was the case but when I try the two nib files separately, meaning I set the number of table rows to 1 they work.

If I change the row number to 2 and put the switch statement or an if statement I get the nil error.

It is a problem when I am trying to customize more than one row, there must be a problem in the way I am trying to add the custom table view cells in my code.

Thanks again.

[dana0550]

Brian,

I decided to try what the apple docs stated:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)atableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if([indexPath row] == 0) return appleCell;
    if([indexPath row] == 1) return bananaCell;
    return nil;
}

This worked fine for me, I wish I used this about 4 hours ago, I would not have wasted so much time. The only reason I hesitated to use it was because I thought I would not be able to use separate class files for each custom cell. I need to have to class files because they will be performing very unique tasks.

Thanks again for your help and patience. The good news is this solution is very clean and easy to manage.

Dana