[MonoTouch] Using UIWebView in Monotouch.Dialog.UIViewElement

Mon Mar 12 07:28:16 UTC 2012

Hi,
has anyone got the UIWebView to work in a UIViewElement? I want to render an HTML fragment as a table row in a Monotouch.Dialog view. I have tried the following code...

string myHtmlFragment = "<html><body>Testing 1 2 3</body></html>";
UIWebView web = new UIWebView(){};
web.LoadHtmlString(myHtmlFragment, null);
UIViewElement element = new UIViewElement("My Caption", web, false);
m_MySection.Add(element);

But I get a row which is about 1 pixel high.  So I added the following but it didn't help.

web.LoadFinished += (sender1, e1) =>
{
      web.SizeToFit();
};

I read that I should inherit UIViewElement and implement IElementSizing. So I tried that (replacing UIViewElement in the above code with UIViewElementSizing.

public class UIViewElementSizing : UIViewElement, IElementSizing
{
     //ctor omitted - it just passes everything through.

   float IElementSizing.GetHeight(UITableView tableview, NSIndexPath path)
     {
         return 50;
     }
}

Now I get a row of the same height as the others in my view, but it just displays the caption "My Caption" and not the web view.

There are no examples I could find or documentation on how to use UIViewElement.  Any pointers would be gladly accepted.

Cheers,
Felix