How to assign File's Owner when using UITableView registerNib: to load a custom UITableViewCell from nib?

Question

So i've been looking at using UITableView's registerNib: and [dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: forIndexPath:] for loading up a custom UITableCellView from a NIB. Here are the important bits from my controller:

- (void)viewDidLoad

[super viewDidLoad];
self.tableView.bounces = NO;
[self.tableView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"ProgramListViewCell" bundle:nil] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"Cell"];



- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

TVProgramListTableViewCell *cell = (TVProgramListTableViewCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];

cell.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, CELLWIDTH, OPENCELLHEIGHT);
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
cell.clipsToBounds = YES;

cell.titleLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"herpa derp: %i", indexPath.row];

return cell;

So i'm registering the NIB when the view loads and then utilizing it for cell dequeuing. Up to this point everything is working like i expect it to. My custom TVProgramListTableViewCell is being properly loaded from the NIB and it's IBOutlet is being wired up.

The NIB contains a view with a button in it that i would like to have fire events to the controller. I can set the File's Owner type as my Table View Controller class but i do not know how to actually wire up the File's Owner.

Now if i was using loadNibNamed:, and loading the NIB myself, wiring up the File's Owner would be easy. Is there any way to achieve this while utilizing registerNib? Other than not being able to wire up the File's Owner this seems like the perfect way of using custom cells in a UITableView.

Answer 1

As far as I know, there's no way to set the file's owner to your table view controller and connect up an action method to a button in a xib file -- I've tried that, and it crashes the app. The way this is normally done is to call addTarget:action:forControlEvents: on your button in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method, and pass self as the target.