Loading a Reusable UITableViewCell from a Nib

Question

I am able to design custom UITableViewCells and load them just fine using the technique described in the thread found at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=545061. However, using that method no longer allows you to init the cell with a reuseIdentifier which means you have to create whole new instances of each cell at every call. Has anyone figured out a good way to still cache particular cell types for reuses, but still be able to design them in Interface Builder?

Answer 1

Actually, since you are building the cell in Interface Builder, just set the reuse identifier there:

Or if you are running Xcode 4, check the Attributes inspector tab:

(Edit: After your XIB is generated by XCode, it contains an empty UIView, but we need a UITableViewCell; so you have to manually remove the UIView and insert a Table View Cell. Of course, IB will not show any UITableViewCell parameters for a UIView.)

Answer 2

Just implement a method with the appropriate method signature:

- (NSString *) reuseIdentifier {   return @"myIdentifier"; }