Programmatically created UITableViewCell subclass only working on highlight - iphone

Question

I've created a subclass of UITableViewCell but I'm struggling to get it to work properly. If I use UITableViewStyleDefault then the class only works when highlighted. If I use UITableViewStyleValue1 then it mostly works but I'm unable to change label fonts much.
I tried researching but it seems everyone is doing this via a .xib file, but not programmatically.
Implementation file
#import "ASCustomCellWithCount.h"
#implementation ASCustomCellWithCount
#synthesize primaryLabel,secondaryLabel,contentCountImage,contentCount;
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier
{
self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
contentCountImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed: #"tableCount.png"] ];
primaryLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
primaryLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
primaryLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
primaryLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize: 20];
primaryLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
secondaryLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
secondaryLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
secondaryLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
secondaryLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize: 8];
secondaryLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
contentCount = [[UILabel alloc] init];
contentCount.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
contentCount.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize: 15];
contentCount.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
contentCount.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
contentCount.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(1, 1);
contentCount.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.contentView addSubview: contentCountImage];
[self.contentView addSubview: primaryLabel];
[self.contentView addSubview: secondaryLabel];
[self.contentView addSubview: contentCount];
}
return self;
}
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
CGRect contentRect = self.contentView.bounds;
// CGFloat boundsX = contentRect.origin.x;
primaryLabel.frame = CGRectMake(0 ,0, 200, 25);
secondaryLabel.frame = CGRectMake(0, 30, 100, 15);
contentCount.frame = CGRectMake(contentRect.size.width - 48, contentRect.size.height / 2 - 13, 36, 24);
contentCountImage.frame = CGRectMake(contentRect.size.width - 48, contentRect.size.height / 2 - 12, 36, 24);
}
- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
// Configure the view for the selected state
}
- (void)dealloc {
[primaryLabel release];
[secondaryLabel release];
[contentCountImage release];
[contentCount release];
}
#end
And then to create the cell I use
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
ASCustomCellWithCount *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[ASCustomCellWithCount alloc] initWithStyle: UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}
cell.textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [tempArray objectAtIndex: indexPath.row]];
cell.contentCount.text = #"49";
return cell;
}

Answer 1

For the sake of completeness, my issue was trying to use the custom cells default cell.textLabel.text rather than my custom cell.primaryLabel.text.
As soon as you use one of the default objects in a cell it reverts to the default cells rather than a subclass.