Adjusting UITable/Cell width

Question

I've been working on an app which has included the ECSlidingViewController project to give me a navigation that I can slide in from the left. The navigation links are in an NSArray and displayed dynamically into a UITable using the following piece of code:

    - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    NSString *cellIdentifier = @"MenuItemCell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
            cell.contentView.backgroundColor=[UIColor blueColor];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    }

    cell.textLabel.text = [self.menuItems objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    return cell;
}

The problem is that the text is way too long in length to display once we view the slide out controller. It now looks like this:

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I would love to be able to reduce the cell width if that is possible or even split the text onto two lines and make it look a lot more like this:

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Any helpful advice would be much appreciated!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '13 at 16:11

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I had exactly the same situation recently (although I am using ViewDeck rather than EDSlidingViewController).

My solution was to change the width of the entire UITableView instead by embedding it within another UIView ...

answered May 15 '13 at 16:11

Mike Pollard

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This works to a degree...I can resize the new UITableView, although my table is no longer populated by my NSArray. Any ideas? – Jamie Gordon May 16 '13 at 10:32
You need to make sure that the datasource and delegate of the UITableView are still set appropriately I guess? – Mike Pollard May 16 '13 at 11:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '14 at 00:59

If you are using ECSlidingViewController version 2 (iOS 7+) you can do this by setting edgesForExtendedLayout on the controller that you want to not hide.

For example if you wanted to show from the left the whole controller:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeTop | UIRectEdgeBottom | UIRectEdgeLeft;
}

There is more examples one GitHub: https://github.com/ECSlidingViewController/ECSlidingViewController/tree/master/Examples/LayoutDemo

Adjusting UITable/Cell width

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