Add a UITableViewControler to a UIView - objective-c

Question

I am writing an appcelerator module, which means I am handed a subclassed UIView to work with and create my visual controls in Objective C.
I am trying to add a tableview with a searchbar, but most samples online use rootViewController and UITableViewControler.
so...in order to add a tableview to the current view, do I need to create a tableview and a UITableViewController and add them somehow as subviews to the current view ?
I tried adding a MainViewController.h & MainViewController.m which is defined as
#interface MainViewController : UITableViewController <UISearchDisplayDelegate, UISearchBarDelegate>
and then in my view
#import "MainViewController.h"
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
mainView = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
[self addSubview:mainView.view];
}
-(void)frameSizeChanged:(CGRect)frame bounds:(CGRect)bounds
{
if(CGRectIsEmpty(self.frame))
{
self.frame = bounds;
[self addSubview:mainView.view];
}
}
but it did not work, I just got an empty view. any ideas ? a sample code would be greatly appreciated
thanks

Answer 1

You could try something like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
self.view.backgroundColor=[UIColor whiteColor];
UITableView *TableListView=[[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(-5,-1,331,425) style:1];
TableListView.editing=NO;
TableListView.delegate=self;
TableListView.dataSource=self;
TableListView.separatorColor=[UIColor colorWithRed:0.000000 green:0.591928 blue:1.000000 alpha:1.000000];
TableListView.separatorStyle=1;
TableListView.rowHeight=40;
TableListView.tag=0;
TableListView.backgroundColor=[UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];
TableListView.clipsToBounds=YES;
[self.view addSubview:TableListView];
[TableListView release];
}
Hope this helps get you started...