Hi,
Exploring widget.newTableView, I notice that the row render function is frequently called even when the row’s display object is already there.
I.e., my render code, below, seems to work fine. When first called for a given row (“index” value),
I create a text object and then say “row.done = true”. When called again for the same row,
I find that *almost* always row.done is still true, and the object still exists with the correct contents.
But, after a scroll, sometimes on_row_render is called for a row index I’ve rendered before and “row.done” is false/nil (and, in those cases, the ‘address’ of the row object is different than the prior time for the same index).
I presume that what’s happening is that the TableView widget conditionally releases some of the
row objects based on some internal criteria (e.g., how many object does it have allocated, how
many does it want allocated, and was the object recently scrolled off the screen).
That raises the question: *is* it correct for me to rely (with a test) on the prior contents, or should
I assume that I have to re-render on every call?
I’m hoping the answer is: if row.done is valid, you can rely on that, otherwise re-render 
thanks,
Stan
local function on\_row\_render (event) local row\_height, row\_title, row, index row = event.row -- Get reference to the row group index = row.index -- Cache the row "contentWidth" and "contentHeight" because the row bounds can change as children objects are added local row\_height = row.contentHeight if not row.done then row\_title = display.newText (row, "abc " .. row.index, 0, 0, nil, 14) row\_title:setFillColor (0) -- color of the text (0 = black) -- Align the label left and vertically centered row\_title.anchorX = 0 row\_title.x = 1 -- 0 works, but seems a tad close to the edge of the rectangle row\_title.y = math.floor (row\_height \* 0.5) row.done = true row.title = row\_title -- print ("new row.title = ", row.title) else -- print ("old row.title = ", row.title) end return true end -- on\_row\_render proc