How to create UITableView and detail view separately - iphone

Question

I've created an app using single view based.Now I have to display 15 number of menus and description about each menu.So I thought of using UITableView inserting in that.While selecting a cell it should display long text & image content.Do i have to create each ViewController for each description or any shortcuts to add description programmatically
Here is my code for table view
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}
// Set up the cell...
cell.textLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:15];
cell.textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"Cell Row #%d", [indexPath row]];
return cell;
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
// open a alert with an OK and cancel button
NSString *alertString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"Clicked on row #%d", [indexPath row]];
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:alertString message:#"" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"Done" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
This is for creating UIAlertView when cell is touched.
How can i do for long text and image display.Any ideas pls.

Answer 1

I think you can use a navigation controller and push tableView on it. On selection of a cell of table you should push a detailView (one detail view for all cells). This works only if you have to show same format of details data in the detailView. Else if you have to different screens for each selection, then you can design all those screens which will also make it heavy.

Answer 2

You can create a single ViewController wich initialize with image and text, inside view controller you should create UITextView and UIImageView. ViewController must be something like this:
#interface ViewController : UIViewController {
UIImageView *imageView;
UITextView *textView;
}
-(id)initWithText:(NSString *)text image:(UIImage *)image;
#end
#implementation ViewController
-(id)initWithText:(NSString *)text image:(UIImage *)image {
if (self = [super init]) {
//ImageView initialization
imageView.image = image;
//TextViewInitialization
textView.text = text;
}
return self;
}
#end
In view controller where table view you can create 2 arrays with corresponding images and text to cells.
Then didSelectRowAtIndexPath: must looks like this:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
ViewController *vc = [[ViewController alloc]initWithText:[textArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] image:[imagesArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:vc animated:YES];
[vc release];
}