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I’m making a TableView with ListDataSource. Some of the items will have a named image, and some will not. In order to keep the item titles lined up neatly, I’m trying to give the items without images a default transparent image. However, it doesn’t seem to be working.

Here’s roughly what the relevant piece of my code looks like:

# item_list is a list of everything to go on the table
# data_list is a dictionary that will go to ListDataSource
for item in item_list:
    if check_for_star(item):
        img = ui.Image.named('iob:ios7_star_outline_24')
    else:
        img = PIL.Image.new('RGBA',(24,24), (255, 255, 255, 0))
    data_list.append({'title' : item, 'image' : img})
view['tableview'].data_source = ListDataSource(data_list)

The TableView displays as if the PIL images are None. I thought maybe it needs to be a ui.Image instead, so I tried doing this:

img = ui.Image.from_data(PIL.Image.new('RGBA',(24,24), (255, 255, 255, 0)).toString())

The img variable is still treated like None. Am I missing something? I can use img.show() with the PIL images and they look fine.

In case this helps, here’s an example of what the output looks like. I want all of the title text to line up neatly.

Per the code/doocs, the image field should either be a string (which is used as the argument to ui.Image.named, or else a ui.Image.

def tableview_cell_for_row(self, tv, section, row):
        item = self.items[row]
        cell = TableViewCell()
        cell.text_label.number_of_lines = self.number_of_lines
        if isinstance(item, dict):
            cell.text_label.text = item.get('title', '')
            img = item.get('image', None)
            if img:
                if isinstance(img, basestring):
                    cell.image_view.image = Image.named(img)
                elif isinstance(img, Image):
                    cell.image_view.image = img
            accessory = item.get('accessory_type', 'none')
            cell.accessory_type = accessory

You should take a look at the items you are sending to ListDataSource to verify that it is a list of dicts, which have a key named image, which contains a string or ui.Image.

If not, check that your star flag is being properly set.

If you want more control, you may need to implement your own datasource that uses content_view

Thanks, that makes sense. I might just try making my own datasource then.

I was confused because in the documentation on ListDataSource.items, the link to the Image object goes to the PIL.Image module, not ui.Image. That’s what prompted me to try a PIL image in the first place. http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/ui.html#ui.ListDataSource.items

yeah, that is an error in the docs -- everything in UI that refers to images are ui.Image, not PIL.Image.

The ListDataSource should work, in theory, though it may or may not put the image where you would like.