iPhone: drawRect in UiTableViewCells

It's better to add this line

[super drawRect:rect];

at the end of your drawRect method . And use

drawAtPoint:forWidth:withFont:lineBreakMode:

to draw your NSString

Try it and tell us what you get.

cheers,

HeoU

The SeismicXML example uses drawRect for a custom cell.

actually, you should call [super drawRect:rect] in the beginning of your drawRect method.

This is what i did, and it does wonders:

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)Rect {
CGContextRef ref = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[super drawRect:rect];
CGContextSetRGBFillColor(ref, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); // set color to black again after super.
CGRect writeInHere = CGRectMake(0,0,100,20);
[@"teststring" drawInRect:writeInHere withFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica"] lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeTailTruncation];
}

you need to call super as the first thing, esp if you want to support "selected" cells.
you will want to create the font instance outside the draw method for optimization.

- Jae

Yes, if you use UITableViewStyleGrouped, i should do

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier
{
 if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame reuseIdentifier:identifier]) {
 // Init your text here
 }
 return self;
}

and rewrite

- (void)layoutSubviews
{ 
 [super layoutSubviews];
 CGRect contentRect = [self.contentView bounds];
 
 CGRect frame = CGRectMake(contentRect.origin.x, 6, 200, 80);
 yourtext.frame = frame;
}

Good luck,

cheers,

HeoU