Adding a UILabel to UiTableViewCell - text is being cropped vertically - objective-c

Question

Running into a problem when I try and add a UILabel to a custom UITableViewCell. For some reason the frame's are not being respected at all - when I try and set the label height (through CGRectMake) the text is being cropped vertically. In other words, only half of the text is being shown.
When I play around with the CGRectMake's frame height it shows some strange behavior - sometimes a lower value will actually make things align properly.
Am I setting the wrong values? Is the frame the wrong property to be modifying?
Edit for code:
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {
if ((self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier])) {
// Initialization code
eventName = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
//eventName.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
eventName.numberOfLines = 2;
eventName.minimumFontSize = 8.;
eventName.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
eventName.text = #"Event Name";
[self.contentView addSubview:eventName];
eventStartEndDate = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
eventStartEndDate.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
eventStartEndDate.text = #"Event Start and End Dates";
[self.contentView addSubview:eventStartEndDate];
description = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0, 30.0, 300.0, 20.0)];
[self.contentView addSubview:description];
}
return self;
}
-(void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
if (!self.editing) {
eventName.frame = CGRectMake(10.0, 10.0, 300.0, 20.0);
eventStartEndDate.frame = CGRectMake(10.0, 35.0, 300.0, 20.0);;
}
}

Answer 1

First of all, you should pay more attention to memory management. You have to call release on your UILabels.
The reason, why your UILabels sometimes seem clipped is, because your other labels do have a white, opaque background. Setting the backgroundColor property to [UIColor clearColor] does the trick.
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier
{
self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if (self) {
eventName = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
//eventName.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
eventName.numberOfLines = 2;
eventName.minimumFontSize = 8.;
eventName.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
eventName.text = #"Event Name";
eventName.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.contentView addSubview:eventName];
[eventName release];
eventStartEndDate = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
eventStartEndDate.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
eventStartEndDate.text = #"Event Start and End Dates";
[self.contentView addSubview:eventStartEndDate];
[eventStartEndDate release];
description = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0, 30.0, 300.0, 20.0)];
description.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.contentView addSubview:description];
[description release];
}
return self;
}