Unable to set text field on UILabel
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06-07-2019 - |
Question
I have created UITableCellView
class called NoteCell
. The header defines the following:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "Note.h"
@interface NoteCell : UITableViewCell {
Note *note;
UILabel *noteTextLabel;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) UILabel *noteTextLabel;
- (Note *)note;
- (void)setNote:(Note *)newNote;
@end
In the implementation I have the following code for the setNote:
method:
- (void)setNote:(Note *)newNote {
note = newNote;
NSLog(@"Text Value of Note = %@", newNote.noteText);
self.noteTextLabel.text = newNote.noteText;
NSLog(@"Text Value of Note Text Label = %@", self.noteTextLabel.text);
[self setNeedsDisplay];
}
This fails to set the text field of the UILabel
and the output of the log messages is:
2008-11-03 18:09:05.611 VisualNotes[5959:20b] Text Value of Note = Test Note 1
2008-11-03 18:09:05.619 VisualNotes[5959:20b] Text Value of Note Text Label = (null)
I have also tried to set the text field of UILabel
using the following syntax:
[self.noteTextLabel setText:newNote.noteText];
This does not seem to make a difference.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Solution
Have you set up your noteTextLabel anywhere? What this looks like to me is that you're messaging a nil object. When you cell is created, noteTextLabel is nil. If you never set it up, you're basically doing the following:
[nil setText: newNote.noteText];
And when you later try to access it, you're doing this:
[nil text];
Which will return nil.
In your -initWithFrame:reuseIdentifier:
method, you need to explicitly create your noteTextLabel, and add it as a subview to your cell's content view:
self.noteTextLabel = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 20)] autorelease];
[self.contentView addSubview: self.noteTextLabel];
Then this should work.
Also, as a stylistic note, I would make the property
for noteTextLabel readonly, since you're only going to want to access it from outside the class, never set it.