Having issue with UITextField and UITableViewCells

[cityofangels]

I have UITextField in my UITableViewCell in a UITableView. I have 11 cells total. When I enter text in a cell, and scroll the cell off the screen, that text is getting cleared.

It seems like maybe the cells are being dequed or deallocated? I need all the cells's textFields to be visible within this view at all times and there are only 11 so it doesn't be too much of an issue.

[samurle]

Originally Posted by cityofangels

I have UITextField in my UITableViewCell in a UITableView. I have 11 cells total. When I enter text in a cell, and scroll the cell off the screen, that text is getting cleared.

It seems like maybe the cells are being dequed or deallocated? I need all the cells's textFields to be visible within this view at all times and there are only 11 so it doesn't be too much of an issue.

Are you tring to use UITableViewCell for storage? Because I don't think it works like that.
If something gets edited, you have to store it yourself.

Anything that gets added to a UITableViewCell may get re-used, so you have to make sure these fields
get cleared out before you use them.

[cityofangels]

This is the code I'm using. Is it because I don't have a datasource such as an array or something? I'm pulling the text initally from the childAppointmentDictionary if there is text from the server, otherwise the user enters text and I save it to an NSString. I'm also using ARC.

    - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
        CellIdentifier = @"textCell";
        VitalsTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
        switch (indexPath.row) {
            case 0:
                cell.vitalsLabel.text = @"Temperature";
                cell.textField.text = [self.childAppointmentDictionary objectForKey:@"temperature"];
                self.temperatureTextField = cell.textField;
                break;
            case 1:
                cell.vitalsLabel.text = @"Pulse";
                cell.textField.text = [self.childAppointmentDictionary objectForKey:@"pulse"];
                self.pulseTextField = cell.textField;
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
        return cell;
    }
        
    - (void) textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
        if (textField == temperatureTextField){
            self.temperatureString = self.temperatureTextField.text;
        } 
        else if (textField == pulseTextField){
            self.pulseString = self.pulseTextField.text;
        }
    }

[samurle]

Originally Posted by cityofangels

This is the code I'm using. Is it because I don't have a datasource such as an array or something? I'm pulling the text initally from the childAppointmentDictionary if there is text from the server, otherwise the user enters text and I save it to an NSString. I'm also using ARC.

The table cell is either being allocated new or being re-used.

This is the default code from the XCode template.

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
     cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}