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POHow do I display a placeholder image when my UITableView has no data yet?
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  1. POHow do I display a placeholder image when my UITableView has no data yet?
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    copied!<p>I have an application that, on load, displays a UITableView with the user's data in it. </p> <p>However, when the user <em>first</em> loads the application (before they've created any data), I'd like to display, instead of an empty table, a background image (with an arrow pointing to the 'add a record' navbar button). Once the user has added their first record, the tableview is displayed instead. I've seen numerous apps do this - the only example I can think of at present is Cha-Ching, before you have any budgets/etc set up. I can't for the life of me work out how to do this, though.</p> <p>I initially added a navigationcontroller to the main window's xib, the rootViewController of which was a custom viewcontroller/xib. This rootViewController contained the background image with a hidden tableview above it, and a custom tableviewcontroller that managed the tableview. This seemed to work just fine, and if there was data it would load and display in the table. However, if I was to scroll the data offscreen, the app would crash, with this error:</p> <pre><code>*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[UITextEffectsWindow tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xd2d130' </code></pre> <p>I have no clue what a UITextEffectsWindow is, or why it was trying to manage my tableview. I presume something may be hooked up incorrectly in my view hierarchy...</p> <p>If there's a much simpler/more straightforward way of doing this, I'd be very grateful if someone could explain it. How would you do this?</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
 

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