How to make a UITableViewCell with different subviews reusable?

Question

I have a UITableView in which I display, naturally, UITableViewCells which are all of the same class, let\'s call it MyCell. So I have

Answer 1

There are a couple of different ways to do this. You need a way to access that subview and reset or change it on reuse.

1. You could subclass UITableViewCell with your own class of cell that has a property for the train or car view. That way you could access and change that view when the cell is reused.

2. Assign a different identifier to each type of cell:

`

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
        static NSString *CarCellIdentifier = @"CarCell";
    static NSString *TrainCellIdentifier = @"TrainCell";
        if(indexPath == carCellNeeded) { 
        UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CarCellIdentifier];
             if (cell == nil) {
                 cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CarCellIdentifier] autorelease]; 
             [cell addSubview:carView];
        }
        } else if(indexPath == trainCellNeeded){ 
        UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:TrainCellIdentifier];
                if (cell == nil) {
                  cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:TrainCellIdentifier] autorelease]; 
            [cell addSubview:trainView];
             }
        }
      return cell; 
}

1. Or assign a special tag to that sub view you are adding and when the cell comes back around again to be reused you can access that specific subview by its tag.