UITableViewCells reverting back to default or other values - ios

So I've created a TableView as below, but I have quite an annoying problem.
When I come to this VC, I click Choose User, and I selected user Atoshum.
When I scroll down, this top cell goes off screen as I scroll through the bottom cells.
When I scroll back up, the cell has reverted to a default (or occasionally, takes the value of another cell).
I make the cells as such.
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
DMSDrugInstanceCell *Cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (!Cell) {
Cell = [[DMSDrugInstanceCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}
Cell.chooseUserButton.tag = indexPath.row;
[Cell.chooseUserButton addTarget:self
action:#selector(performSegue:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
return Cell;

In the cell creation you dont ever set any values. All you do is set the tag and then add an event target. If you want it to keep the choose, you need to store/save that choice when it is made and then in the cell create, set it based on that saved value.

you are reusing table cell. So every time your cell reload then you need to set value in cell.
in cellForRowAtIndexPath method , you need to set value in cell according to index path.

This is because the UITableView do not create the new cells for total number of elements. Rather it re-uses the cells which are off the visibility. Hence you feel that your data is reset or getting reflected on some other cell.
The best approach is to store all your data in some Array (let it be tagDataArray) and then set your cells as
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
DMSDrugInstanceCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[DMSDrugInstanceCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}
Cell.chooseUserButton.tag = [tagDataArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
...
...
return Cell;
}

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When you use dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier, your cells will be reused. This means when the user scrolls the tableview, a cell which moves out of the screen will be reused to display the contents of a cell which is about to move onto the screen.
Even though this helps in saving memory, the problem it causes is the that the cell needs to be prepared for display before it is loaded with the content of the new cell.
In your case, it seems you need to maintain the values the user has entered in a textfield of a cell.
So to fix your problem, if there are not that many cells in the tableview, simply stop reusing the cell. Else whenever the user enters a value in the textfield of a cell, save it in an array (array of 'MenuModel' in your case). And fetch the value from from the model and set it to your textfield in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method like your have set values for other labels.

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I'm using a custom UITableViewCell subclass, called MessageCell.
I initialise the cell like so:
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So I tried:
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OR:
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PS on re-reading your question:
do you really need a reference to a cell in your array? Can't you for example store the indexPath and use cellForRowAtIndexPath: if you need to make a cell out of it?

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- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [_tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil)
{
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In my UITableView, I recently changed the structure of the cell from formerly just putting UILabels in the contentView of the cell, to adding two UIViews (CellFront and CellBack, on top of one another) into the contentView (so I can achieve a sliding effect by sliding the top one off and revealing the lower one) and adding the UILabels to the top UIView.
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But I set a breakpoint on the initWithStyle method above within the if statement and it never gets called:
What would cause this? I'm deleting the app and building it from scratch every time, so data is definitely being added to the UITableView, but all the cells are blank. And I can tell a bunch of cells are being added as I have disclosure indicators on all of them, and the table view just gets filled with empty cells with the indicators only.
What am I doing wrong?
try
ArticleCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
instead of
ArticleCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
the first one is the old standard way. It will not create a cell for you. While with the second a cell will be created form the storyboard. So if you use storyboards you should use indeed the method you are using now, but it will never go info the if branch, as the cell will never be nil.
when instantiating form storyboard, initWithStyle:reuseIdentifier: is never called. Either set everything up in -initWithCoder: or -layoutSubviews

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