Changing bounds of imageView of UITableViewCell

I'm trying to place various size images inside imageView of UITableViewCell. I get the image data asynch'ly, create the image, set the content mode of imageView and finally set bounds of imageView. But the code seems insensitive to any changes I made. I want the images to be centered in a 75x75 area. I wrote the below code for this purpose

UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
[holder.imageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeCenter || UIViewContentModeRedraw];
[holder.imageView setImage:image];
[holder.imageView setBounds:CGRectMake(0,0,75,75)];
[holder.imageView setFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,75,75)];
[holder setNeedsLayout];

Where holder is the UITableViewCell. The result I get is always the same. All images have 75px height and different widths. Can someone help me solve this problem?

I have realized that setting contentMode and bounds properties does not have any effect in that code. I have added an NSLog after the last line and got the results as below:

NSLog(@"imageview:%@ bounds and contentMode:%@ %@",[holder imageView],[holder.imageView bounds],[holder.imageView contentMode]);

imageview:<UIImageView: 0x39ab8a0; frame = (0 0; 75 75); opaque = NO; userInteractionEnabled = NO; layer = <CALayer: 0x39a92b0>> bounds and contentMode:(null) (null)

Still no solution

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So the problem with UITableViewCell's is that you have no control over the size of the built-in objects (namely imageView, contentView, accessoryView, backgroundView). When the table changes, your customizations get trampled over.

You can, as Behlul pointed out, force the sizes to be correct by using layoutSubviews, but the problem with that is that layoutSubviews is called every time the table scrolls. That is a lot of unnecessary re-layout calls.

An alternate, method is to add all of your content to the contentView. Similarly if you are customizing the background, you can create a transparent backgroundView and add your custom background view (eg myBackgroundView) as a subview of backgroundView.

This way you can place and size your items how you want them.

The down side is the stock messages are no longer received from the accessory or image views. You just have to create you own.

Hope that helps!

// This code is not tested
// MyCustomTableViewCell
- (id) init{
    self = [super initWithStyle: UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"MyReuseIdentifier"];
    if(self){
        //image view
        my_image_view = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"default_image.png"]] retain];
        [my_image_view setFrame:CGRectMake(10,10,30,30)];
        [self.contentView addSubview:my_image_view];

        //labels
        my_text_label = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(50,10,100,15)] retain];
        [self.contentView addSubview:my_text_label];
        //set font, etc

        //detail label
        my_detail_label = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(50,25,100,15)] retain];
        [self.contentView addSubview:my_detail_label];
        //set font, etc

        //accessory view
        //Whatever you want to do here
        //attach "accessoryBut


                        
                        
                            answered 2012-02-16T21:09:57.737

Changing bounds of imageView of UITableViewCell

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