Grids in a UITableView?
As I explained a few posts ago, one of the reasons I’m firing this site back up is to help fellow developers, programmers and fermentors find answers to their questions. I spend a good chunk of my day both at home and work Google-ing how to do this or that.
This quick post is to give a little shout out to TJS over at dewpoint.snagdata.com. In particular, their post titled, Drawing a Grid in a UITableView. I had a similar experience to the author when I started trying to figure out how to display tabular data within a UITableView. It seemed like a grid system should be built in, but alas, it was not. I tried inserting tabs, messing with alignments but nothing really worked. I considered inserting individual labels into the cell, but I wasn’t sure how to go about it.
After searching for what seemed like an hour, I couldn’t find anything. Finally, I happened upon TJS’s solution and immediately knew I had found what I was looking for. After tweaking the label’s size, font color and setting the background color to ‘clear’, I was in business.
So, besides keeping the authors info intact in the file headers, I wanted to give an internet high five and maybe in doing so, help the post get a better positioning in the Googles. If anyone is having any issues with their Objective C code, feel free to hit me up on Twitter, @mhokie. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve learned a few things in the last year or so.
As a computer science nerd, I enjoy dabbling in all things related to web development and programming. Be it wrangling HTML/CSS across several browsers or harnessing the power of Objective-C while developing iPhone Apps, I enjoy a challenge. 
