Weird error that requires 2 rows to be selected on screen

Oh. Oh I see.

The problem is that you're using "did*DeselectRowAtIndexPath" to trigger the open URL request. You need to handle that in the "didSelect*RowAtIndexPath".

Do you see? Imagine you have two rows in your UITableView, Row A and Row B. Suppose you tap on Row A. Row A's cell gets sent the message "did*SelectRowAtIndexPath". This would be the ideal time to handle any view loading. Now let's suppose you tap on Row B next. Row A becomes *deselected so that Row B can become selected. So Row A gets sent the message "did*DeselectRowAtIndexPath", and Row B gets sent the message "didSelect*RowAtIndexPath".

That would also explain why tapping on the same row many times in sequence never triggers the page to load—it never gets deselected, and your code is telling to to only open on a deselect.

All you have to do is change the name Deselect to Select and you should be good!

(As an aside, you might also want to test what happens when your thumbnail image doesn't exist. Does it load or not? I'm not sure.)

Post your code, please.

Yeah, can you post the code for didSelectRowAtIndexPath as well as the code for your table view's data source?

My guess is there's some indexing issue going on. There are two main ways in which your indexing could be messed up:

1. In the didSelectRowAtIndexPath, you're not using [indexPath row] correctly.
2. Your table view's data array is messed up. Maybe you started indexing it at [1] instead of [0]? (That would explain things being offset incorrectly.)

You can always try getting a description of the first element of your data source; if it's an array, you can do the following:

NSLog(@"%@", [[myArray objectAtIndex:0] description]);

Basically you want to check to see if it's actually defined. You might even try outputting the titles for each object in the tableview's array; something like this:

for (int i=0; i < [myArray count]; i++) {
    NSLog(@"%d = %@", i, [[myArray objectAtIndex:i] description]);
}

Which should output something like this (if the array contains strings):

0 = NULL
1 = Feb 21
2 = Feb 22
3 = Feb 26

You should see 0 = to something other than NULL. (I'm not sure if it will actually output NULL, it may say something else.)

Hi, code to follow ( I am having trouble with formatting)

'''

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];

    DSBlogPost *blogPost = [self.blogPosts objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    if ([blogPost.thumbnail isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) {

    NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:blogPost.thumbnailURL];

    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];

    cell.imageView.image = image;
    } else {
        cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Nightwing logo.png"];
    }

    cell.textLabel.text = blogPost.title;

    cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ - %@", blogPost.author, [blogPost formattedDate]];

   return cell;
 }

'''

and here: '''

    -(void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    DSBlogPost *blogPost = [self.blogPosts objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    UIApplication *application = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
    [application openURL:blogPost.url];

    }

'''

Nice catch Mike!