How to display multiple columns in a UITableView? - iphone

Question

I want to display multiple columns in a UITableView.
For Example:
TableView
FName LName Age
----- ----- ---
Abby Michale 34

Answer 1

I think the correct way of doing this is UICollectionView. Started with UITableView and finally failed at some point due to unexpected behavior while trying to implement scrolling both left-right and up-down.
Please check this awesome post for a complete and up-to-date solution:
http://www.brightec.co.uk/blog/uicollectionview-using-horizontal-and-vertical-scrolling-sticky-rows-and-columns
Result will be like this:

Answer 2

You can define a custom cell in IB, which will contain 3 labels and in function:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *DetailCellIdentifier = #"DetailCell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [aTableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:DetailCellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
NSArray *cellObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"DetailCell" owner:self options:nil];
cell = (UITableViewCell*) [cellObjects objectAtIndex:0];
}
// setup your cell
}
when you define the cell in IB give each label a tag, so when you need to put a text there you can retrieve it by tag like this:
label = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:NAME_TAG];
label.text = myObject.name;
and repeat this with other 2 labels. The tag is a unique number.
Put this code instead //setup your cell comment

Answer 3

I have created UIGridView. I believe your problem can be solved using the same technique.
You can learn the source code of UIGridView. The code is really short.

Answer 4

Bit late to the party, but we've open sourced our fully featured table component:
https://github.com/flexicious/iOSDataGrid
Some screenshots:
http://www.ioscomponents.com/Home/IOSDataGrid
Feel free to use!

Answer 5

Create a custom UIView subclass containing, say, three UILabel elements as subviews. Then set the cell's contentView property to this custom view.

Answer 6

add three labels as sub viewsinto uitableview cell's content.then assign apprrpriate values to it
eg:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}
//frame should be set accordingly(means should be framed accordingly).
UILabel *l1=[[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5, 5, 100,100)];
UILabel *l2=[[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(110,10,100,80)];
UILabel *l3=[[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(115,60,100,50)];
[cell.contentView addSubview:l1];
[cell.contentView addSubview:l2];
[cell.contentView addSubview:l3];
return cell;
}