On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:33 AM, glenn andreas wrote: > Actually, it does a number of things for you:
I didn't say it didn't do anything. I said it didn't do anything you couldn't easily do yourself. > 1) It flashes the scroll bar correctly when the view appears Which you can easily do by implementing viewDidAppear. > 2) It can automatically deselect selected rows (in 3.2 and later) Which you can easily do by implementing viewWillAppear. > 3) Most importantly, it will handle dealing with keyboards showing up and > covering part of the table view (and adjust the scroll/content inset), which > can be a painful mess, especially trying to support both pre 3.2, and 3.2/4.x > (since not only are the keyboard notifications different, but it deals with > the view being presented in the variety of different ways - sheet, full > screen, etc...) Which you... uh... okay, you've got me there! :) Nevertheless, UITableViewController is in many ways just annoying. It doesn't obey the UIViewController rule, which it should inherit, about what happens when you init it with a nil nibName. And if your view is not completely occupied by a table (as in my TidBITS News app, where there's a UILabel and a table), you *can't* use UITableViewController. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Among the 2007 MacTech Top 25, http://tinyurl.com/2rh4pf AppleScript: the Definitive Guide, 2nd edition http://www.tidbits.com/matt/default.html#applescriptthings Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard http://tinyurl.com/kufyy8 RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
