Adding UITableView as a subview

[emptycrawford]

Ok, I'm probably just stupid, and this is probably a question that gets passed around a bunch, but I'm new to Objective-C, and I'm running low on ideas. Basically, I have a main view to which I've added a UIImageView as a subview with no problems. Now, I want to add a transparent UITableView to that. The tableView works fine by itself, but as a subview, it crashes. I think it has something to do with how it's initialized in my main view controller:

tableView = [[MyTableViewController alloc] init];

And later...

[contentView addSubview:tableView];

Like I said, it works great when skip the main view and point the appDelegate straight to MyTableViewController, but to add it as a subview crashes the simulator.

Anyway, this is my first post, so be kind.

Thanks in advance,
emptycrawford

[heyyou]

I am in the same boat. New to the who iphone programming but I am trying to do a UITableView in as a subview. I have been struggling with this and I'm hoping you figured something out. Can you provide any help?

[dagamer34]

Table views require two things: a delegate as well as a data source (and you will need to your classes to implement the UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource protocols and tell your table view to use your custom class for those data points). If those two things aren't set, your application will crash.

Also, I'd recommend learning to use the console in XCode. It will tell you why your application is crashing. It should be under the "Run" menu.

[heyyou]

Thank you for the quick response. I have decided to scrap the subview idea and instead of building it in the interface builder I am building it just from XCode.

This has been a painful journey, but man have I learned a lot in this short amount of time.