表格视图未使用原型单元

Question

I have read many posts about similar problems but nothing seems to work, I am obviously doing something wrong. I have a TableViewController that is in a StoryBoard (XCode 5). For the PrototypeCell I set the type to custom and set the Identifier to "pbvcell". I added some labels, changed the background etc.. Here is my tableview delegate method for setting the cell

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
   UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"pbvcell"];


// Configure the cell...

PBVlead *lead = [self.leads objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSLog(@"Cell class %@", [cell class]);

UILabel *leadNameLabel = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:1];
leadNameLabel.text = lead.leadName;
return cell;
}

Now the app launches but even after I add an object to the tableview datasource array and do a reload data, the cells are blank, like the custom cell is not being used. It looks like this should be easy and thats all I need to do. What on earth am I missing?

Answer 1

I left this in a comment above but just to keep things tidy I will post it as an answer here. It is silly but it is good to note that you have to manipulate the contextView of a prototype cell and not the tableview cell itself in order for your visual changes to have an effect...

"Because I embrace my own stupidity I will tell everyone what was going on here. I had set the TableCell background to blue and added some UILabels and set there color to white to show up against the blue background. Run the app, no labels.... What I finally realized is, I had not set the Content View background to blue. So..... What was happening was the labels actually are shown in the content view in the view hierarchy. White labels on a white background equals, invisible... :-) I set the content view background to blue and wola, there is everything! :-) Brother..?