Date in a TableView

[Meredi86]

Hey guys, I have a view (UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, ...>) That has an individual cell on it. In this cell i want to have the current date displayed (upon the ViewLoading).

Currently i have this code in my cellForRowAtIndex:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    date = [NSDate date];
    NSLog(@"DATE = %@", date);
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    
    if (cell ==nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue2 reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    switch (indexPath.row) {
    case 0:
            cell.textLabel.text = @"Date";
            cell.detailTextLabel.text = [self.dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
            break;
    }
    return cell;
}

But only the celltextlabel displays, the rest of the cell is empty. If i alter the detailtextlabel to be just a string(@"example") then that string will also display.

Is there something wrong with my above code, or does data not display if it is too long for the cell available?

Thanks in advance Joe

[BrianSlick]

Show your date formatter code.

[Meredi86]

Well currently dateFormatter is just a property. Declaserd in my .h file as:

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter;

I assume then that i need to include more code then to format it in the cell correctly?

[jNoxx]

When I had this, i saw in my XIB that my tableview resized, and was too big, so it didn't display. So might check that x)

[Meredi86]

jnoxx - i had the same problem early on, trying to get a tableview to the right size in IB can be a bit of guess work!! However i had tested it with just simple strings as the tableview data. Thanks for the suggestion though

Brian - after i replied i went away and found what i needed. I had missed out "setDateFormat" then after including this it still didnt work, so i got rid of my properties for "date" and "dateformatter" and made them local variables. This solved my problem and now i can display the date as expected. Thanks for the nudge.

Edit

A bit of code as jNoxx requested

NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] init];
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

This is what i needed to have set up to format my date. not too much to it, and of course you can alter the order of @"dd-MM-yyyy" till your hearts content (though being English dd-mm-yyyy is the correct way)

NSDateFormatter also handles the time with @"HH:mm:ss"

I found all my info over at SO, on this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9...-in-iphone-sdk - credit where credit is due.

The code above in my original post for putting the date into a tablecell was correct, and i had to make no changes there - oh apart from not using self.dateFormatter - instead just drop the self.

[jNoxx]

Lol ok, well, great
nice one ^_-
Btw, post some code, maybe people need it too