Connecting Table View - no outlet?

[rjzinger]

Hello.

I followed this tut on reading from a DB and populating a Table View, it worked just fine. When I tried to move this into another application "tableView" doesn't appear as an outlet that I can hook my Table View to. Any suggestions?

Tut: iPhone SDK Tutorial: Reading data from a SQLite Database | dBlog.com.au

If you need to see some code, please let me know. I am new to this forum and to coding.

Thanks,
Rich

[Meredi86]

please post the .h file that you are using.

It sounds like one of the two projects is using a UIViewController and the other is using a UITableViewController - after a quick look at the tutorial they areusing a UIViewController for their tableview. If this is the case then you dont need to use IB to place a Tableview on the screen, or to hook it up to an IBOutlet. A UITableViewController takes care of that for you. you can tell from this line in your .h:

@interface AClass : UITableViewController {

From my own experience and from what i have read around a little it is better to create a UIViewController and then add in the tableview delegates. So that would look like this:

@interface AClass : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource> {

I am not 100% sure on the differences between the two (other than the obvious - one is a tableview and one is just a view) but i have always found it simpler working with a UIViewController and subscribing to the tableview delegate and datasource. The ease of a UIViewController really comes into its own when you want to do more than just display a table on the view.

[rjzinger]

Meredi86, I figured it out, I was missing the functions to create the DB an read it.

Now, the first table view is populated but when you tap on any of the items, they go nowhere. :-(

Here is the code that should make something happen, correct?

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // Navigation logic -- create and push a new view controller
	SalesTrainingAppDelegate *appDelegate = (SalesTrainingAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
	Step *step = (Step *)[appDelegate.steps objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
	
	if(self.stepView == nil) {
		StepViewController *viewController = [[StepViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"StepViewController" bundle:nil];
		self.stepView = viewController;
		[viewController release];
	}
	
	// Setup the animation
	[self.navigationController pushViewController:self.stepView animated:YES];
	
	// Set the title of the view to the step's name
	self.stepView.title = [step name];
	
	// Set the description field to the steps description
	[self.stepView.stepDescription setText:[step description]];
	
	// Load the steps image into a NSData object and then assign it to the UIImageView
	//NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[step imageURL]]];
	//UIImage *stepImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:imageData cache:YES];
	//self.stepView.animalImage.image = stepImage;
	
}

Thanks,
Rich