On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Donald Hall wrote: > I have come to the conclusion that what I wanted to do is not easily done > unless the table view controller has its own nib file. In IB if you don't > specify that the table view controller that is the root view controller of a > navigation controller has its own nib file, there is no access to the actual > table view in IB, so no way there to specify the table style. (The inspector > window for a table view controller has no setting to specify the style.) > Hitting the disclosure triangle for the custom table view controller in the > main window nib file in that case only shows the Navigation Item - it doesn't > show the table view. To access the controller's table view you have to have a > separate nib file for the table view controller and tell the main window nib > in the Attributes Inspector to load from this other nib.
This just isn't so. You say "Hitting the disclosure triangle for the custom table view controller in the main window nib file in that case only shows the Navigation Item - it doesn't show the table view." It doesn't show the table view because you didn't put any table view there. If you drag a table view into the table view controller, that becomes its view and now you can hook everything up. This is in some ways not as convenient as putting the table view in its own nib file, but you can certainly do it that way. My own inclination, however, would be to go exactly the other way - no second nib, no table view in any nib, and no UITableViewController in a nib either. In fact, I probably wouldn't even use a UITableViewController at all. UITableViewController doesn't get you anything much that you can't do in code yourself. Personally I'd just use my own UIViewController subclass, and create the table view in code. And in that case I probably wouldn't instantiate the UIViewController subclass from a nib either; I'd do *that* in code as well. It seems to me that you're stumbling over your feet in part because you insist on doing everything in nibs. In my view, nib instantiation and configuration of view controllers just makes it harder to understand what's going on. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = [email protected], http://www.tidbits.com/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Among the 2007 MacTech Top 25, http://tinyurl.com/2rh4pf AppleScript: the Definitive Guide, 2nd edition http://www.tidbits.com/matt/default.html#applescriptthings Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard http://tinyurl.com/kufyy8 RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
