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kennedy otis
3,570 PointsCustom cell with large background image
Hi guys Am trying to make custom cells with large background image with labels on top of those images. Issue is that the images seems to be overlaying and when I click on the cell, the background color for my labels disappear. Am trying to achieve this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21316108/Screenshot%202014-05-13%2010.31.03.png Is there something I should know or am missing about UITableViewCell.
8 Answers
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsCan you show us your code? :)
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsAm using storyboard with UITableViewController + CustomTableViewCell. http://pastebin.com/Zb1pgRNR
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsCould you also post a image of the problem? (I know you explained it, but I'd also like to see it :)
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsI have managed to solve the overlaying image problem and now is the label background disappearing when i click and also the indexing is not correct. For example when i click on first row i expect index 0 but i see index 1 and when i clicked second row i see index 0 instead of 1.
Before click https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21316108/b4.png
After click https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21316108/after.png
Notice the Poster label disappear when clicked
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsThat's because you have used:
-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
When you really want to use
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsThanks the indexing is now working but the background for my label disppear when clicked..
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsIf you want to be able to click on them - why make UILabels and not UIButtons?
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsThe UILabel and is just appearance thing.. what am really interested with is the index which you have helped me to fix.. I just thought may be having UILabel will be nice but unfortunately when I click on the cell the background colour disappear...
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 PointsI'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't have an explanation for that. If I were to guess I'd say the problem is somewhere in the storyboard. The reason I'm saying this is because I've made custom cells several times myself, in code. UILabels were among the UI elements used and they did not disappear when I clicked on them.