Parse Data into NSTableView

Question

Hello fellow programmers,

First off, I am new to OSX/iOS programming and am trying to learn swift. I am fairly competent in java and wanted to teach myself something new

Answer 1

The way we do it in iOS is, In the class that is the TableView's Delegate and Datasource we implement

func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!) -> UITableViewCell!{


    var ident = "cellIdentifier"
    var cell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(ident) as UITableViewCell
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier: ident)
    }
    cell.textLabel.text = myTitleArray[indexPath.row]
    return cell

}

To handle the user selecting a row:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!){

}

And to tell it how many rows there are:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int{
    return myTitleArray.count
}

Where myTitleArray is your array of titles, obviously you can change that as you wish.

The way you find out what you should actually put as var ident = "cellIdentifier" is the is the identifier you gave the dynamic prototype cell in the storyboard

I agree sometimes the Apple Developer Class Reference can be confusing and often they have a Programming Guide which is way more helpful.

Try looking here for what I understand is what you want.

If your very interested in iOS programming check out these free Stanford lectures on iTunes U particularly 11, 12, and 13 talk about UITableView. They are in iOS 7 so nothing about Swift, but the only real difference in the implementation of UITableView is syntax between those languages