subclassed UITableViewCell - backgroundView covers up anything I do in drawRect

Question

I\'m trying to make a subclassed UITableViewCell where I draw an image in the upper right corner. I have it working perfectly - except when I set self.backgroundView, my bac

Answer 1

Here's a solution that's a bit of a kludge, but it fits my requirements exactly... with one fatal flaw: when cells get reused, the star corner shows up when I don't want it to.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2349787/UIImage_Position_subclassed_cell2.zip

I'm still using drawRect here, but only because self.starImage is null if you access it within the initWithStyle method. Also, instead of adding the subview to self.contentView, I'm adding it to self.backgroundView to prevent the cell's delete button from interfering with it. The star corner is positioned correctly in both portrait and landscape mode, and works fine within edit mode as well.

With the cell reuse issue though, It's still a no go... so, maybe I'm back to trying to do it without subclassing UITableViewCell.

I'm open to any further suggestions. Thank you!

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {
    if ((self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier])) {
        // Initialization code

        self.backgroundView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cellBackground.png"]] autorelease];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect {

    UIImageView *imageView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.bounds.size.width - self.starImage.size.width, 0, self.starImage.size.width, self.starImage.size.height)] autorelease];
    imageView.image = self.starImage;
    imageView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin;

    [self.backgroundView addSubview:imageView];
}