Monotouch: UITableViewCell height

Question

I've been surfing the net to figure out how make my tablecell height fitt its content (my content is of different height).

I've tried to look at this sample .... http://simon.nureality.ca/simon-says-project-d-uitableviewcells-autosize-based-on-text-height-in-monotouch-heres-how/ ... but I can't make it work.

Here's my code so far .. the cell height is actually working, but the text is centered with trailling dotts (instead of dilling out the entire frame):

public override UITableViewCell GetCell (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
    string item = this.Lst.Items [indexPath.Section];

    UITableViewCell cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell (_cellIdentifier);
    if (cell == null) {
        cell = new UITableViewCell (UITableViewCellStyle.Default, _cellIdentifier);
        cell = new UITableViewCell (UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, _cellIdentifier);
    }

    // Find the height...
    SizeF textWidth = new SizeF (tableView.Bounds.Width - 40, float.MaxValue);
    SizeF textSize = tableView.StringSize(item, Font, textWidth, LineBreakMode);

    // Textlabel...
    cell.TextLabel.Text = item;
    cell.TextLabel.Font = Font;
    cell.TextLabel.Frame = new RectangleF(cell.TextLabel.Frame.X, cell.TextLabel.Frame.Y, textSize.Width, textSize.Height);

    //cell.Accessory = UITableViewCellAccessory.DisclosureIndicator;
    cell.ImageView.Image = PlaceholderImage;   
    cell.EditingAccessory = UITableViewCellAccessory.DisclosureIndicator;

    // Sizing the cell...
    RectangleF rectCell = cell.Frame;
    rectCell.Height = textSize.Height;
    cell.Frame = rectCell;

    return cell;
}

public override float GetHeightForRow(UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
    string item = this.Lst.Items [indexPath.Section];
    SizeF size = new SizeF (tableView.Bounds.Width - 40, float.MaxValue);
    float height = tableView.StringSize (item, Font, size, LineBreakMode).Height + 10;
    return height;
}

And it looks like this...

Any idea what is wrong?

Thanks!

Mojo

Answer 1

You can control the textlabel's behavior by setting the Lines and LineBreakMode properties.

For example, setting

cell.TextLabel.Lines = 0;
cell.TextLabel.LineBreakMode = UILineBreakMode.WordWrap; 

will let your label do word wrapping and use as many lines as needed.

Also consider using MonoTouch.Dialog by Miguel De Icaza. It simplifies dealing with UITableView considerably.