Use a custom UITableViewCell for many UITableView - ios

Question

I have created a custom UITableViewCell for a UITableView by dragging and dropping the labels and imageView from my Prototype Cell to a Custom Cell which I call QuizInfoCell.
That works fine for the particular TableView that I created the Prototype Cell in, but I can't get QuizInfoCell to work for any other TableView. How can I achieve that?
This is the code that I'm using in the TableView that created the Prototype Cell:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
QuizInfoCell *cell = nil;
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"QuizInfoCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
if (cell == nil){
cell = [[QuizInfoCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:#"QuizInfoCell"];
}
cell.name.text = [title objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.author.text = [author objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.time.text = [[ValueHandler alloc] getDateString:[timeStamp objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.plays.text = [#"Plays: " stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [plays objectAtIndex:indexPath.row ]]];
cell.ratingUps.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [ratingUps objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.ratingDowns.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [ratingDowns objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.qid.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [qid objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}

Answer 1

I suggest creating your QuizInfoCell as a new XIB file.
Press CMD + N
Select the User Interface submenu.
Create a new View and call it QuizInfoCell
In your new XIB delete the existing View element and instead drag and drop a new Table View Cell.
Recreate your custom UITableViewCell in the same way as you did before by dragging and dropping the labels and imageView
Finally give the new Cell an Identifier called QuizInfoCell, like this:
You can then load your new Custom UITableViewCell with Code:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
QuizInfoCell *cell = nil;
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"QuizInfoCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
if (cell == nil){
NSArray *nibContents = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"QuizInfoCell" owner:self options:nil];
cell = [nibContents objectAtIndex:0];
}
cell.name.text = [title objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.author.text = [author objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.time.text = [[ValueHandler alloc] getDateString:[timeStamp objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.plays.text = [#"Plays: " stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [plays objectAtIndex:indexPath.row ]]];
cell.ratingUps.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [ratingUps objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.ratingDowns.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [ratingDowns objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
cell.qid.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [qid objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}