[MonoTouch] Inconsistent behavior creating a UISearchDisplayController in code

[Mike Bluestein]

I was declaring UISearchDisplayController in ViewDidLoad rather than
as a class variable. Once I moved the declaration outside it worked
fine. Thanks to Chris Hardy on irc for helping me work this out.

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Mike Bluestein
<mike.bluestein at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting inconsistent behavior creating a UISearchDisplayController
> in code. Sometimes it works whereas most of the time it skips the
> search controller and just acts as if only the search bar were being
> used (so you get a keyboard, but no overlay, etc)??
>
> Here's a snippet that's basically what I'm doing:
>
>        [Register("SomeTableViewController")]
>        public class SomeTableViewController : UITableViewController
>        {
>                ... code to wire up source omitted for brevity
>
>                public override void ViewDidLoad ()
>                {
>                        base.ViewDidLoad ();
>
>                        UISearchDisplayController sdc = new UISearchDisplayController
> (CreateSearchBar (), this);
>
>                        //this should be enough to display the ui from
> the controller even without the Delegate wired up.
>
>                        ...
>
>                }
>
>                UISearchBar CreateSearchBar ()
>                {
>                        UISearchBar search = new UISearchBar ();
>                        search.SizeToFit ();
>                        search.AutocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionType.No;
>                        search.AutocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationType.None;
>
>                        this.TableView.TableHeaderView = search;
>
>                        return search;
>                }
>        }
>