trouble with section headers in UITableView - iphone

Question

im having a problem with setting my section headers in a uitableview, its probably something really simple i just cant work it out.
instead of displaying different headers for different sections it displays the same header for each section
help me please :)
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
return [appDelegate.matchFixtures count];
}
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {
WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
Fixtures *fixtures = [appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section];
return fixtures.matchDate;
}

Answer 1

Your original code looks okay. I'm betting that appDelegate.matchFixtures doesn't contain the data you think it does. Modify your code to look like this:
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
NSLog(#"appDelegate.matchFixtures.count = %i", appDelegate.matchFixtures.count);
return [appDelegate.matchFixtures count];
}
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {
WorldCupAppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
Fixtures *fixtures = [appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section];
NSLog(#"For section %i, fixtures.matchDate = %#", section, fixtures.matchDate);
return fixtures.matchDate;
}
And look at the log output in the debug console.

Answer 2

Try like this
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection: (NSInteger)section {
NSString *title = nil;
// Return a title or nil as appropriate for the section.
switch (section) {
case 0:
title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
break;
case 1:
title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
break;
case 2:
title = [[appDelegate.matchFixtures objectAtIndex:section]matchDate];
break;
default:
break;
}
return title;
}
Edit
Set the date properly with retain in the delegate class.Even i had some problems similar when storing values in delegates.
- (void)setCurrentDates:(NSString *)value {
[value retain]; // <- Retain new value
[date release]; // <- Release old value;
date = value;
}
All the best.