custom UITableView Cell for side menu

[ghost]

I'm trying to implement a TableViewController with a custom cell like below.

class menuItem: UITableViewCell {
    @IBOutlet var menuLabel: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet var menuImage: UIImageView!
}

When I use this as a table view (connecting the outlets to the story board prototype cells with UILabel, UIImageView) it works well. But when I'm injecting it into the Navigation controller it fails to create a custom UITableView Cell.

  func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> menuItem {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! menuItem
    if cell == nil {
        cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier: "cell") as! menuItem
    }
    return cell  
  }

// cell value is always nil. Even after Manually creating in cell == nil condition

Can any one help me with this ?

[evnaz]

How do you create table view controller?

[evnaz]

I mean how do you create an instance of table view controller. You have to do it like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24035984/instantiate-and-present-a-viewcontroller-in-swift#answer-24036067

[ghost]

@evnaz Thanks for the link. I'll try it and get back.

[jgutierrez11]

Hi, I'm experimenting with a custom cell and I got this error:

'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'unable to dequeue a cell with identifier drawerCell - must register a nib or a class for the identifier or connect a prototype cell in a storyboard'

I did everything as usual when working with tableviews

I solved with this:
#19

thanks anyway :)