Comments on: Customizing the background/border colors of a UITableView (grouped style)

By: Mark S

Mark S — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:12:02 +0000

Thanks for the great method!
As you do [[CustomCellBackgroundView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
Isn’t there a need for release somewhere?
Or is it save to add to autorelease pool?
Please correct if any of it true or false.

Thanks again

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:42:36 +0000

You can easily change the border colors of the uitableview by using this:

[theTable setSeparatorColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

By: veddermatic

veddermatic — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:17:57 +0000

Thanks for the code, really helpful stuff. Quick question though… if i reload the table data, I get a second set of labels. What’s the best way to avoid that?

By: Jiropole

Jiropole — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:10:23 +0000

Apologies for the noise, but I figured out a way to clean up custom subviews using the UIView.tag property. No great revelation to you experienced programmers I’m sure :) I set the tag for any custom views to some arbitrary value, then every time I get a dequeued cell, I first remove any subviews having this tag.

By: Jiropole

Jiropole — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:57:23 +0000

Ditto on the thanks – this saved me a bunch of time as well. I tweaked the rounded-corner drawing code so it can draw single-pixel width cells centered on the pixel vs leaking over two pixels.

One issue that’s come up for me is that when used with dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:, I may get a cell to which I’ve already added these custom subviews. I’m not sure how to strip these views back out or identify them, when a cell reuse occurs. As it is, these subviews build up and create a visual mess! I’m not too adept at using UIViews yet, does anyone know a simple way to find/remove these custom subviews in a cell reuse situation? Cheers!