Text not being set in UILabel (or UITextField) in a UICollectionViewCell
I'm doing something too stupidly obvious to see for myself, so hopefully a peer review will help.
I've got the simplest UICollectionViewController setup. I have a custom UIViewControllerCell which contains a UILabel.
The data to populate the UICollectionViewController is just a static array.
When I run the app, the UICollectionViewController is displayed, but only shows the default label text e.g. 'Label'.
So I think the majority of the code is correct, its just that I cannot set the text in the UILabel.
Its something very obvious I'm sure but I just can't see it
Here is some of the code
override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier, for: indexPath) as! WrappedCollectionViewCell
// Configure the cell
var myLabel = UILabel()
cell.brandText = myLabel
var labelString:String = brandList[indexPath.row]
cell.brandText.text = labelString
return cell
}
All the data is correct I can see the correct text and the correct indexPath. But if I debug in Xcode at the end of the method I can see it still shows the text as 'Label'
Here is my custom UICollectionViewController. All I did was set up the outlet.
import UIKit
class WrappedCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell {
// Previously wrong because this was set to be a UITextField
@IBOutlet weak var brandText: UILabel!
}
So please help, I've spent hours on this, it's driving me mad!
You are declaring new object of UILabel no need for these 2 lines (you made a mistake beacuse you connected textfield not label in your cell class):
var myLabel = UILabel()
cell.brandText = myLabel
First you need to connect proper ui component to your cell(@IBOutlet weak var brandText: UILabel) and then
just set the text of your label in cell like this:
override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier, for: indexPath) as! WrappedCollectionViewCell
// Configure the cell
var labelString:String = brandList[indexPath.row]
cell.brandText.text = labelString
return cell
}
And you should be good to go!