Loading a Reusable UITableViewCell from a Nib

Question

I am able to design custom UITableViewCells and load them just fine using the technique described in the thread found at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=545061.

Answer 1

As of iOS circa 4.0, there are specific instructions in the iOS docs that make this work super-fast:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/TableView_iPhone/TableViewCells/TableViewCells.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007451-CH7

Scroll down to where it talks about subclassing UITableViewCell.

Answer 2

Now, in iOS 5 there is an appropriate UITableView method for that:

- (void)registerNib:(UINib *)nib forCellReuseIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier

Answer 3

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

static NSString *simpleTableIdentifier = @"CustomCell";

CustomCell *cell = (CustomCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
if (cell == nil)
{
    NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomCell" owner:self options:nil];
    cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];

    [cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
}         

return cell;
}

Answer 4

The gustavogb solution doesn't work for me, what I tried is :

ChainesController *c = [[ChainesController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ChainesController" bundle:nil];
[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"ChaineArticleCell" owner:c options:nil];
cell = [c.blogTableViewCell retain];
[c release];

It seems to work. The blogTableViewCell is the IBOutlet for the cell and ChainesController is the file's owner.