If you use a UITableViewController, the controller automatically creates a
UITableView instance and sets it to self.view.
Luke
On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> While working on practice coding exercises last night, I was trying what I
> thought should be a simple project. I wanted to acquire some data, assign it
> as the datasource for a UITableView, then select a value in that, pass off
> the selected value to a holder of data, then push a new view for another
> UITableView, acquire data based on the selected value and then display it.
>
> What bent my mind over a stump was that all the examples I had all never
> seemed to follow Apple's documentation in the creation of UITableView. I've
> got one empty xib file with a window tied to the App Delegate. As a result,
> in my second UITableView, I got a nice empty white screen, until I walked
> through the TableView Programming Guide for iOS and added this code:
>
> - (void)loadView
> {
> NSLog(@"LocationSpecificsViewController");
> NSLog(@" In loadView");
>
> UITableView *tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen
> mainScreen] applicationFrame]
>
> style:UITableViewStylePlain];
>
> Now, this is what I expected to have to do if creating the tableView
> programatically. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how all the
> other examples (that aren't using a storyboard or xib file) are bringing a
> table into existence merely through lazy instantiation or with the
> viewController declaration in the application didFinishLaunching portion of
> the AppDelegate.
>
> I'm expecting that I should look for a UITableView alloc somewhere, but well,
> that's obviously not the case. Though the TVC is being created in the
> AppDelegate, I'm expecting to see a visible declaration of the UITableView,
> and am not clear how that's happening through lazy instantiation (in
> Hegarty's example) or in some of the sample files that Apple provides that
> don't use xibs or storyboards.
>
> What's happening that allows the tableview to appear and operate with only..
>
> - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
> didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
> - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
> numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
> - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
> cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
>
> ...yet no visible UITableView allocation that I can see?
>
> TIA
> - Alex Zavatone
>
>
>
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