Reading plist into TableView

I started this project with a simple plist of a dictionary with two arrays of strings. I now want to add more information and want to use this plist structure:

Root - Dictionary - (2 items)
   Standard - Array - (3 items)
      Item 0 - Dictionary - (4 items)
           Color - String - Red
           Rvalue - String - 255
           Gvalue - String - 0
           Bvalue - String - 0

Sorry about typing in the plist but the site would not let me post an image

I know that the RGB values could be numbers instead of strings but I have a reason for them being strings.

This is the code I used to read the simple plist:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    NSUInteger section = [indexPath section];
    NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];
    NSString *key = [keys objectAtIndex:section];
    NSArray *colorSection = [colors objectForKey:key];

    static NSString *SectionsTableIdentifier = @"SectionsTableIdentifier";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:SectionsTableIdentifier];

    if(cell == nil){
        cell=[[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier: SectionsTableIdentifier] autorelease];开发者_开发知识库
        }

    cell.textLabel.text = [colorSection objectAtIndex:row];
    [cell setAccessoryType:UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton]; //add disclosure button to rows
    return cell;
}

My question is what is the specific code to retrieve the contents of the color dictionaries to get the Colors for the cell.textLabel.text and also read the RGB values to add a subtitle. I've been working on this for several days and have read references and lots of examples and unfortunately can't solve the problem. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

So providing you have your Standard - Array stored against a Array you've defined in your .h file then something like this would work. In this example the array is stored against self.coloursArray.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *SectionsTableIdentifier = @"SectionsTableIdentifier";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:SectionsTableIdentifier];

if(cell == nil){
    cell=[[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier: SectionsTableIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
NSString* ColourString = [[self.coloursArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"Colour"];
NSString* rValue = [[self.coloursArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"Rvalue"];
NSString* gValue = [[self.coloursArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"Gvalue"];
NSString* bValue = [[self.coloursArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"Bvalue"];
cell.textLabel.text = ColourString;
NSString* subCellString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@:%@", rValue, gValue, bValue];
}

Hopefully that'll give a a hand.

First, do not use -[UITableViewCell initWithFrame:reuseIdentifier:]. It has been deprecated and will give you a warning, plus it will make your subtitle harder to implement. This code is a modified version of yours which loads the information, sets the title to the Color property, and sets the subtitle to a string containing the Rvalue, Gvalue, and Bvalue properties.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    NSUInteger section = [indexPath section];
    NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];
    NSString *key = [keys objectAtIndex:section];
    NSArray *colorSection = [colors objectForKey:key];

    static NSString *SectionsTableIdentifier = @"SectionsTableIdentifier";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:SectionsTableIdentifier];

    if(cell == nil) {
        cell=[[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier: SectionsTableIdentifier] autorelease];
    }

    NSDictionary *color = [colorSection objectAtIndex:row];
    cell.textLabel.text = [color objectForKey:@"Color"];
    cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@, %@, %@",[color objectForKey:@"Rvalue"],[color objectForKey:@"Gvalue"],[color objectForKey:@"Bvalue"]];
    [cell setAccessoryType:UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton]; //add disclosure button to rows
    return cell;
}