[MonoTouch] Custom RootElement showing up blank

[brinew27]

That does, thanks Jeff. I'll take a look at that code when I get home,
I'm assuming I'll have to add code to the getcell override to populate
the cell with the caption.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Jeff Stedfast [via MonoTouch]
<ml-node+s2284126n3905415h37 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> 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 <[hidden email]> 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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