Indexed TableView without Sections

[marshusensei]

I have a tableView with titles appearing Alphabetically. I've added an index bar on the side, but am having trouble getting it to work as my data is not sorted into sections. So I'm hoping for some advice.

Is there a way to make the index work without using Sections?

[BrianSlick]

Not easily. How are you getting the titles and content to display properly if your data isn't organized into groups?

[marshusensei]

I'm trying working with NSMutableArrays that add NSMutableDictionaries - can't get my head around the Search bar yet, so I thought Indexing would be simpler... now I'm stuck on this!

I sort the table at the end like so:

    NSSortDescriptor *descriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"name" ascending:YES];
    
    [allThings sortUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:descriptor,nil]];

It seems like the easier solution would be to sort this data into sections based on the key @"name", well, the first letter of @"name". Gah, I'm getting too confused by all this.

[BrianSlick]

Ok, so you don't have the table displaying correctly, then.

Perhaps you should read through the table view link in my signature.

[marshusensei]

Thanks Brian,

I'll give that a read, I've jumped into this app, spent ages on the data entry only to discover that I don't really understand enough to make this work properly. Think I need to start from the ground up, do some really basic tutorials and figure things out.