TableViewCell.detail_text_label

[Omega0]

I want to use the detail_text_label on a TableViewCell but the documentation says that it's only accessible in non-default styles of the TableViewCell class, so my question is: How do I change the style of the cell?

[omz]

I'm sorry that this isn't documented properly. When you initialize a TableViewCell, you can pass the style as a string, e.g. my_cell = ui.TableViewCell('subtitle'). Valid values for the style parameter are 'default' (same as when you leave out the parameter), 'subtitle', 'value1' and 'value2' (the last two are commonly used for settings).

[Omega0]

Thanks for the help! To try this out I made a little test code to show the different types if anyone else wants to use this.

import ui

class source (object):
    def tableview_number_of_rows(self, tv, s):
        return 4
    
    def tableview_cell_for_row(self, tv, s, r):
        type = {0:'default', 1:'subtitle', 2:'value1', 3:'value2'}[r]
        cell = ui.TableViewCell(type)
        cell.text_label.text = 'Title'
        try:
            cell.detail_text_label.text = 'Detail'
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        try:
            cell.image_view.image = ui.Image.named('ionicons-image-32')
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        return cell

view = ui.TableView()

view.data_source = source()

view.present()

Not very elegant but it helps.

[Dann239]

Very nice, thank you.

[dgelessus]

That's an awesome feature, this needs to be in the documentation! ;)

@Omega0, your test code is quite useful as a quick reference for how the different styles look, thanks for sharing it.

[Oscar]

I was wondering the exact same thing as @Omega0 did two years ago. Since the documentation has not yet been updated it's great to have this forum and that it is easy to search.