How do I..

[XaKaX]

People, How can I refresh the table from the RootViewController in the Split View Based Application ?

The class is UITableViewController, so I don't have an IBOutlet for do [reloaddata]


Thanks.

[mavrik5150]

If it's just another TableViewController that you have then you should just be able to do: [OtherView.tableView reloadData]. As long as you are importing it and creating the OtherView reference this should work.

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by mavrik5150

If it's just another TableViewController that you have then you should just be able to do: [OtherView.tableView reloadData]. As long as you are importing it and creating the OtherView reference this should work.

GACK!!!!!

Bad, bad advice.

One view controller should never muck around with the views inside another view controller. This creates tight coupling between the view controllers, and completely violates the encapsulation that is important to good object-oriented design.

Instead, you should add a method to the view controller that owns the table view, called something like dataChanged. Then the view controller can issue a reload command to it's table view if it sees fit to do so.

[mavrik5150]

Originally Posted by Duncan C

GACK!!!!!

Bad, bad advice.

One view controller should never muck around with the views inside another view controller. This creates tight coupling between the view controllers, and completely violates the encapsulation that is important to good object-oriented design.

Instead, you should add a method to the view controller that owns the table view, called something like dataChanged. Then the view controller can issue a reload command to it's table view if it sees fit to do so.

But I thought that in a split view it's basically a tableview on one side and another view on the other? I've never used a splitview yet so I just assumed that's how it would have worked.

In my apps I normally do what you provided and run it in viewwillappear to see if the table needed to be reloaded. Maybe I should play with the splitview some more before I start assuming how it works. Thanks.