Friday 23 October 2009

MonoTouch "Corp411" (part II)

A minor update to the Corporate Phonebook incorporating the custom UITableViewCell from Simon (UITableView now shows name and department in each cell; also added a disclosure indicator). Handles RowSelected and uses OpenUrl to call and email.

The MonoDevelop solution is available to download (41Kb).



//TODO: give the new MonoTouch 1.2 System.Data implementation a try!

//HACK: System.Data example now available (26-Oct)

6 comments:

  1. Hi Craig.

    Downloaded solution. Compiled within MonoDevelop 2.2 on OSX Leopard. When running the application I get a sequence of lines on the Application Output view of this kind:
    0
    False
    1
    False
    2
    False
    ...

    and then an Exception is thrown

    System.ArgumentException: An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary

    What am I doing wrong?

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  2. The output in the console is to be expected, I tend to leave a lot of Console.WriteLine statements in these samples.

    As for the "same key" Exception - I did see that once but it disappeared after a rebuild so I kinda forgot about it... was just knocking this up quickly in response to a question. I will check it out again in the next day or so.

    Might be worth giving it another try - there's not a lot of code to this solution - if you find the problem let me know!

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  3. I *think* the problem was using TickCount for the cell.Tag -- if the code is fast enough this could be repeated (so not a good candidate for a Dictionary key!). Not sure why that seemed like a good idea...

    I've replaced with cell.Tag=row; in the latest version - still a bit of a hack.

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  4. Thank you Craig. Now it's ok.

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  5. Hi Craig,
    It is also worth noting that you could have used a UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle to achieve the same effect. I only discovered this by accident the other day when doing a similar thing to your custom cell.

    UITableViewCell cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell (kCellIdentifier);
    if (cell == null){
    cell = new UITableViewCell (UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, kCellIdentifier);
    }
    Then you can access cell.TextLabel and cell.DetailTextLabel

    There is also an ImageView property you can access to display an icon to the left of the cell.

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  6. Thanks Aaron - that's good to know... would definitely take care of this case and a few others without needing IB (yay :) and probably looking more 'standard' too.

    It's useful to understand all the options - custom cells are handy for more complex layouts like the start/end time on the monospace app.

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