EntryElement/Section issue with sections appearing? about monotouch.dialog HOT 4 CLOSED

Okay, i've looked into this a bit further and it seems caption width might have something to do with this; the caption appears to be overwriting the text input field, though as the cursor position changes at times, I wouldn't rule out incorrect placement either. This can be proven by going to the GetCell function in Elements.cs (about line 1450) and adding a line changing the text labels alpha to semitransparent; the text field can be seen behind the blank space that is on the end of the text label.

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I can reproduce the bug. I am not sure what is going wrong, since the entry that is created has the right dimensions.

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Found the reason for the problem.

The error happens because we end up reusing a cell for those rows, and the cells that we happen to reuse are the ones that had an empty caption to begin with (the first row after "Address"). It seems that an empty label creates a view that spans the entire visible area, and the cell can not be reset properly after that.

This seems to be a bug in iOS's UITableViewCell, some sort of caching is not being cleared inside iOS. Because once the Caption is set to the empty string, even if the caption is later reset, the Frame associated is no longer recomputed.

You can observe this behavior by setting the cell.TextLabel.BackgroundColor to some solid color, you will notice that the editing line is there, it is just being completely covered by the frame for the control.

A quick solution is to not pass "" for those empty lies, but instead pass a space. Meanwhile, I think I will make it so EntryElements never reuse cells.

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Closing.

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