cell.contentView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize: does not work for dynamic height tableview

Question

I tried to use autolayout in custom uitableviewcell And tried to implement the dynamic height according to this SO topic

Using Auto Layout in UITableView for dynamic cell layouts & variable row heights

But my cell is created by xib file. So the method is somewhat different Here is my code in heightForRowAtIndexPath

   -(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
  {
 myDataItem *item= [[data items] objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]];



   CustomCell *cell = [self.offscreenCells objectForKey:@"CustomCell"];
    if (!cell) {
        cell =  [CustomCell alloc] init];
        [self.offscreenCells setObject:cell forKey:@"CustomCell"];
      }  



    [cell.commentView setText:item.comment]; 
    [cell.displayNameView setText:item.displayNameOfItemOwner];

    [cell.timeAgoView setText:item.timeAgo];
   [cell.imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"sis_profile_placeholder"]];


    cell.bounds = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, CGRectGetWidth(tableView.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(_prototypeCell.bounds));

    [cell setNeedsLayout];
    [cell layoutIfNeeded];


    CGFloat height = [cell.contentView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize].height;
    return height+1; }

And the height that I got from [cell.contentView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize] is alway "nil" " When I tried to debug ,I found that all subviews of my customcell are "nil" but the cell itself is not "nil". This might because the customCell of mine is made by nib and when I do [[CustomCell alloc] init] the cell is not fully created.

But I did tried to change method to cell = [_tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"CustomCell"];

The result is still the same. Every subview is nil . This make the height return to be zero and the make my tableView display incorrectly. Are there any way to solve this ?

I tried to make these upon AutoLayout .Actually, in the previous version ,that I didn't use AutoLayout and calculate the cell height manually .It did work perfectly. Anyway, I just want to tried AutoLayout.

Please help .Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here is my solution I alloc new cell by NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomCell" owner:self options:nil]; // Grab a pointer to the first object (presumably the custom cell, as that's all the XIB should contain).

        cell = [topLevelObjects objectAtIndex:0];

  -(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath    *)indexPath
 {
 myDataItem *item= [[data items] objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]];



  CustomCell *cell = [self.offscreenCells objectForKey:@"CustomCell"];
if (!cell) {
         NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomCell" owner:self options:nil];
 // Grab a pointer to the first object (presumably the custom cell, as that's all the XIB should contain).

        cell = [topLevelObjects objectAtIndex:0];

    [self.offscreenCells setObject:cell forKey:@"CustomCell"];
  }  



[cell.commentView setText:item.comment]; 
[cell.displayNameView setText:item.displayNameOfItemOwner];

[cell.timeAgoView setText:item.timeAgo];
  [cell.imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image"]];


cell.bounds = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, CGRectGetWidth(tableView.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(_prototypeCell.bounds));

[cell setNeedsLayout];
[cell layoutIfNeeded];


CGFloat height = [cell.contentView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize].height;
return height+1; }