Custom UITableViewCell and size - again.

[teek]

I've created a custom UITableViewCell in IB - all good, but WHY doesn't tableView set the cell height to the height of the cell as defined in IB ?
Do I really need to calculate this in heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath ? Shouldn't the size of the contentView be known to at least it's parent view ?

[bytor99999]

Nope, sorry. You have to do exactly what you wrote.

Because you might want to do things like create a big cell view in IB that might appear as different heights in the tableview. For instance, I create one that has three textfields on top of each other, and dependent on the data for that row in the table, I only have data to fill one textfield, so I only want the row to be 1/3 the normal height. If it was based on the height set in IB, then I wouldn't be able to do that, or I would have to change the frame in the cellView, which works, but, I really like the current approach, it is more flexible in allowing cool things to be done.

Mark

[mavrick3]

Maybe it's possible to set the height to the view.frame.height..?

[bytor99999]

Originally Posted by mavrick3

Maybe it's possible to set the height to the view.frame.height..?

Yes you can, but you have to put it in between [tableview beginUpdates] and [tableview endUpdates]

But the original poster just wanted the table to take the row height given in Interface Builder for the nib of the UITableViewCell.

Mark

[teek]

Ok that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the answer :-)