XML Parsed data into a Custom View with UILabel instead of UITableView

[slowman21]

Hello future friends who is gonna help me big time on this project,

I have these Books parsed from XML file (adopted from this post I found). First view (RootViewController) has a list of book titles in a UITable. When user clicks on one of the books, instead of viewing the books detail (BooksDetailViewController) in a second UITable, I would like the Title, Author and Summary to be in a custom view laid out in Interface Builder with UILabels and UITextView.

IBOutlet UILabel *bookTitle;
IBOutlet UILabel *bookAuthor;
IBOutlet UITextView *bookSummary;

I believe my problem has to do with RootViewController.m "didSelectRowAtIndexPath". If I understand the example I had adapted properly (which I am not confident about), it passed the Book array into each row of the new table on my BooksDetailViewController.

Book *aBook = [appDelegate.books objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

I have tried a few things to recreate didSelectRowAtIndexPath, but I am not having much luck. Below I have the example code commented out and with my own terrible guessed code /sigh.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
// if(bdvController == nil)
// bdvController = [[BookDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"BookDetailView" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
// Book *aBook = [appDelegate.books objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
// bdvController.aBook = aBook;
// [self.navigationController pushViewController:bdvController animated:YES];


NewBookDetailViewController *detailViewController = [[NewBookDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"NewBookDetailViewController" bundle:nil];
Book *aBook = appDelegate.books;

//detailViewController.aBook.title = bookTitle.text;
//detailViewController.aBook.author = bookAuthor.text;
//detailViewController.aBook.summary = bookSummary.text;

[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
[detailViewController release];
}

Do I actually connect the parsed data aBook.title to bookTitle (UILabel) in didSelectRowAtIndexPath of RootViewController?*

or*

Do I connect them in viewDidLoad in NewBookDetailViewController.m?

bookTitle.text = aBook.title;
bookAuthor.text = aBook.author;
bookSummary.text = aBook.summary;

What is the proper way to write the didSelectRowAtIndexPath in RootViewController for a custom view instead of a table view?

Please take it easy on me.

- Clo

[slowman21]

*UPDATE*
hmm... after researching some more it seems I am closer with this...

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
Book *aBook = [appDelegate.books objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
detailViewController.bookTitle.text = aBook.title;
detailViewController.bookAuthor.text = aBook.author;
detailViewController.bookSummary.text = aBook.summary;

[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
[detailViewController release];
}

But I am still missing something...?

[slowman21]

I think Alex from this post solved my problem. Thanks all.

XML Parsed data into a Custom View with UILabel instead of UITableView - Stack Overflow