At Scout Camp Last Week

Last week was spent at Bayport Scout Reservation with Boy Scout Troop 317, of which I am the scoutmaster. It was a busy week for the scouts and myself. We had two 11 year old scouts wake up early each morning to train for the mile swim, and they both successfully completed the mile swim on Thursday morning after swimming 32 laps in the 50m pool. I originally thought about trying for the mile swim, but never having swam more than 1 lap in a pool and not knowing how to pace myself in swimming, I decided not to try…maybe I should have at least tried to see what I could do.

Instead, I spent most of my time in the “Scoutmaster’s Lounge” with my laptop working on the ScoutTrail app. This turned out to be a good thing. I completed the XML parsing code. This led me to the next problem: displaying all of the rank and merit badge requirements in UITableView. The issue with this is that the requirements are variable length from 10 – 100 words. This will not fit in one of the default UITableViewCells. I would need to customize.

With the help of Google search, I found some help over at Cocoa is My Girlfriend. Matt Long wrote up a post on how to create UITableViewCell’s with Dynamic Height. I still need to customize for my specific needs, but it was a great help for getting me past this latest roadblock.

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