Setting Up a Frame for a Sample Application

Because the controls are implemented as table view cells, the most convenient way to present them is to use a table view, or table view controller and provide the locale-aware controls as cells using the table view datasource protocol.

To try out the MAF locale-aware controls, create a simple view controller that implements the UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource protocols and present a single table view UI element on it. Create a tableView object, then add it to the view controller’s view and set the class itself (=’self’) as the data source and delegate for the tableView. You can later use the data source delegate to populate the table view with MAF locale- aware controls. This code shows the basic non-MAF-specific application frame (with .h/.m files) for your sample:

The header file of the sample application:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface MySampleViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource>{}
@end

The implementation file of the sample application:

#import "MySampleViewController.h"

@interface MySampleViewController ()
// the table view, in which we show the different types of MAF locale aware controls, per sections
@property (nonatomic, retain) UITableView* tableView;
// a 'static' array for holding the MAF locale aware controls, namely the MAF table view cells
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray* tableViewCells; 
@end

@implementation MySampleViewController
@synthesize tableView;
- (id) init
{
	if (self=[super init])
	{
UITableView* tempTableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 640) style:UITableViewStyleGrouped]; // set table view's size according to the idiom iphone
		self.tableView = tempTableView;
		[tempTableView release];

		self.tableView.delegate = self; // set the table view delegates object
self.tableView.dataSource = self; // we provide the stored table view cells (which contain the MAF Locale Aware Controls sections)

		[self.view addSubview:self.tableView]; // add the table view to the view controller's view

// create storage for storing the fixed and small number of table view cells' sections / MAFTableViewCells, i.e. the locale aware controls
		NSMutableArray* tempTableCells = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
		self.tableViewCells = tempTableCells;
		[tempTableCells release];

		// create the locale aware controls
		[self createLocaleAwareControls];

	}
}
// …
@end