[MonoTouch] Custom RootElement showing up blank

[Jeff Stedfast]

Hi Brian,

By overriding RootElement's GetCell(), RootElement doesn't get a chance to
populate the cell's fields.

Hope that helps,

Jeff

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:53 PM, brinew27 <briannewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Any idea why this code would produce a blank rootelement in my table when
> passing in an Alert object and a string, when if I just use a basic
> RootElement and pass a string for caption it works fine?
>
> public class AlertRootElement : RootElement {
>             static NSString key = new NSString ("alertRootElement");
>             public EbayNotifierService.Alert Alert;
>
>             public AlertRootElement (EbayNotifierService.Alert alert,
> string
> caption) : base (caption)
>             {
>                  Alert = alert;
>             }
>
>             public override UITableViewCell GetCell (UITableView tv)
>             {
>                  var cell = tv.DequeueReusableCell (key) as AlertDataCell;
>                  if (cell == null)
>                       cell = new AlertDataCell (Alert, key);
>                  else
>                       cell.UpdateCell (Alert);
>                  return cell;
>             }
>
>             public void Delete() {
>                 Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Deleting record {0}",
> Alert));
>
>                        EbayNotifierService.EbayNotifier ebayNotifierService
> = new
> EbayNotifierService.EbayNotifier();
>
>  ebayNotifierService.DeactivateAlertAndItems(Alert.AlertID);
>             }
>        }
>
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