Swift storyboard: tableview appearance not grouped

[twestley]

I've added QD to a swift project via CocoaPods and bridging header. My subclassed QuickDialogController is one of three controllers in container views. Some of that seems relevant to the fact that the tableview does not appear to be grouped. I've set a breakpoint in initWithController to find that controller.root.grouped == YES and that self.style == UITableViewStyleGrouped. Everything works as expected -- including printing boolValue when selected -- except that the tableview appears plain:

import Foundation

class ControlsViewController : QuickDialogController {

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        self.root = QRootElement()
        self.root.grouped = true
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        var section = QSection()
        var airplaneMode = QBooleanElement(title: "Airplane Mode", boolValue: false)
        airplaneMode.onSelected = {
            println("airplaneMode=\(airplaneMode.boolValue)")
        }

        self.root.addSection(section)
        section.addElement(airplaneMode)
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }    
}

QuickDialog v1.0 (CocoaPods)
OS X Mavericks 10.9.4
Xcode 6 GM
iOS simulator: iPad Retina (8.0)

[SteveGreenley]

It may be that it worked correctly. If you open Settings in iOS8, that presents a grouped table and it looks just like what you have there.

[twestley]

I think what you see in Settings in IOS8 are sections in a plain style table, not grouped style table. Grouped tables should still be possible, see https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/TableView_iPhone/TableViewStyles/TableViewCharacteristics.html. However, I can't find an example in Apple iOS 8 apps. They seem to have moved away from grouped style for their apps.

[JoshOldenburg]

Settings is grouped, Contacts is not. Grouped tables have a gap at the beginning, end, and between sections; standard tables have no gaps and the headers stretch across the whole screen.

[twestley]

I'm having trouble reconciling that with Apple statement (from https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/TableView_iPhone/TableViewStyles/TableViewCharacteristics.html):

A grouped table view also displays a list of information, but it groups related rows in visually distinct sections. As shown in Figure 1-4, each section has rounded corners and by default appears against a bluish-gray background. [emphasis added]

What am I missing? Is there another property that needs to be set (in addition to grouped) to get the rounded corners and bluish-gray background? Or perhaps this just can't be done with QuickDialog table views.