I want to call the delegate method heightForRowAtIndexPath in order to dynamically create the cell height depending on the text inside of the cell. How can I access the the text for each row inside heightForRowAtIndexPath. My first thought was to just use: NSString *titleText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:screenData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"titleText" defaultValue:@""]; NSString *descriptionText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:screenData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"descriptionText" defaultValue:@""]; But it just uses the default value. I already know how to use sizeWithFont to get a CGSize of the title and description once I have the text, but how do I get the text in the first place??? Thanks, Max

You're close. Your code tries to get the titleText from the main screenData. You need to pull it from the childItem data. That data is included in the menuItems array. Use the row index number from the delegate method as the index number on the array. Each object in the array is a BT_item, which contains a jsonVars object inside it. So you would call [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:thisItem.jsonVars ...

Thanks for the guidance. I changed it but it still is using the default values. If I change the default values, the row height changes work, but it's not picking up the text from the json. This is what I have: - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { BT_item *thisMenuItemData = [self.displayMenuItems objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; NSString *titleText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:thisMenuItemData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"titleText" defaultValue:@""]; NSString *descriptionText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:thisMenuItemData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"descriptionText" defaultValue:@""]; UIFont *mytitleFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"futura" size:20]; CGSize titleBoundingBox = [titleText sizeWithFont:mytitleFont]; UIFont *mydescriptionFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"futura" size:14]; CGSize descriptionBoundingBox = [descriptionText sizeWithFont:mydescriptionFont constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(320.f, MAXFLOAT) lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByCharWrapping]; return 30 + titleBoundingBox.height + descriptionBoundingBox.height; } Thanks, Max

Thanks for the guidance. I changed it but it still is using the default values. If I change the default values, the row height changes work, but it's not picking up the text from the json. This is what I have: - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { BT_item *thisMenuItemData = [self.displayMenuItems objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; NSString *titleText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:thisMenuItemData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"titleText" defaultValue:@""]; NSString *descriptionText = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:thisMenuItemData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"descriptionText" defaultValue:@""]; UIFont *mytitleFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"futura" size:20]; CGSize titleBoundingBox = [titleText sizeWithFont:mytitleFont]; UIFont *mydescriptionFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"futura" size:14]; CGSize descriptionBoundingBox = [descriptionText sizeWithFont:mydescriptionFont constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(320.f, MAXFLOAT) lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByCharWrapping]; return 30 + titleBoundingBox.height + descriptionBoundingBox.height; } Thanks, Max

Have you tried outputting the strings to NSLog just to make sure they're empty/default? Might be that this is getting called before menuItems is populated, but there should be a [tableView Reload] right after that happens, which should call this method again

Thanks, It turns out I just needed to refresh even though I had recompiled. Now some of my screens have icons that I need toes sure the height of also. How can I access the height of the icons? Thanks, Max