detailTextLabel.text not showing, on iPhone 5 only

Question

I've solved this but it's worth sharing as I couldn't find anything on this.

I had a subclass of UITableView, with a detailTextLabel.text that was not displaying. The detailTextLabel object itself exists as normal, and contains the text, you just can't see it on the screen.

The bug only happens on the iPhone 5 or retina 4 inch simulator. It's fine on the iPod 4 or any other simulator "Hardware". The iOS version used makes no difference.

Answer is below.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '13 at 16:42

Fixed it by having the view controller that triggered the display of the offending table do so in viewWillAppear instead of viewDidLoad.

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    //Used to do this in viewDidLoad, but that stopped the detailTextLabel showing
    //for this table view on the iPhone 5. If do it from here, it's fine.
    [friendsSubView addSubview:friendsTableViewController.view];
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '13 at 17:19

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Should following be the right code? [friendsSubView addSubview:friendsTableViewController.tableView];

answered Jan 05 '13 at 17:19

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No, I copied-and-pasted the correct code to my answer. It works. The only problem was that it was being called in viewDidLoad rather than viewWillAppear. – DenverCoder9 Jan 06 '13 at 14:49

detailTextLabel.text not showing, on iPhone 5 only

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