As someone only recently exposed to Objective-C, Cocoa, and the iPhone development environments, I have been struggling with some of the ways that Apple has decided to do things.
Today I beat my head against a UITableView for most of the day, trying to figure out how to set up the view, the datasource, the delegate, and make them all work together.
I came home from work a bit dejected as I was unable to make my UITableView do what I wanted all day – specifically, I wanted to be able to have more than one category, and have more than one item in each category. All I was good at doing was making it go crashy crashy when trying to add the second category.
This evening I ran across this article that had just the tip I needed: I was missing a method in my datasource that would tell the view how many categories it would have. I spent considerable time today working under the assumption that the UITableView would tell the datasource and delegate what it had/wanted, but it appears that Apple likes to Think Different™ from me.
In any case, I have my sections working now, and wanted to put a link to where I found the answer here just in case I forgot next week when I need it again.
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