Great post dude.. I really expect more tutorials like this!

Hey, a really useful post!

Do you think this is in-keeping with Apple’s UI guidelines? I’ve done this for a while in an App, but I recently decided to switch to a modal view because I wasn’t convinced I was doing the right thing. The other reason I switched was that it takes ages for the UI to appear on a non-3gs phone.

Hello, I create my own UIAlertView subclass. My class can autoresize to any view.

http://fryconstantine.habrahabr.ru/blog/74627/

How Can I post my topic in english on this blog?

Hi there,

This is great. Thanks you.

Could you post a little code to show how to access the value of the text box, say, in a

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {

method.

Thanks.

Great stuff. Thanks.

No. There is a lot of people that used this in there applications and it was fine with Apple and also it didn’t slow down there app at all. It might be something your doing in your code.

Yeah maybe… I think it was because I was forcing the keyboard to appear at the same time.

Rather than adding an extraneous message line, wouldn’t it be better (as long as you’re customizing your UIAlertView) to simply make a custom UIAlertView and override the default setFrame method? This would then allow you to manage the UIAlertView far more easily.

You also have a memory leak from not releasing the UITextField.

try this alert view http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1378133/SmartAlertView.zip/ this alert view can autoresize to any view. you can dispay UITextField, UITableView, UIImageView an etc. Example:

UIView *myView = [[UIView alloc] initWithCenter:CGPointMake(0,0)];
SmartAlertView *smartAlertView = [[SmartAlertView alloc] initWithView:myView andTitle:@”JustForFun”
withTarget:nil andAction:@selector(doSomething:)];
[smartAlertView show];
[smartAlertView release];
[poof release];

screencast: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1378133/SmartAlertView.mov

mayby with animation?

- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];

alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@”Enter Name Here” message:@”this gets covered!” delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@”Dismiss” otherButtonTitles:@”OK!”, nil];
UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12, 45, 260, 25)];
myTextField.delegate = self;

[myTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[alert addSubview:myTextField];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3];

CGAffineTransform myTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, -60);
[alert setTransform:myTransform];

[UIView commitAnimations];
}

Can I assume that this method would work with two UITextFields, like if I was implementing a UserName & Password AlertView?

Great post – thanks.

Just one question how do you get the value from the text field?

I have tried adding textFieldDidEndEditing, but i never get in the method.

I do have ever jump to my -(void)allertView: etc method but can’t then get to my text box value.

Your help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

Don’t worry I sorted it… just declared the UITextField *myTextField; in the header file and not the alert method code.

Then used myTextField.text in the alertView method…

Easy, just needed to use my brain!

Had a little trouble at first but finally sorted it – many thanks

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Great tutorial nice and simple and right to the point.

I ran into an issue with this though. If you add a button on the view that brings up the alert with text field you can hold down inside the text field and let go and the ‘paste’ option appears as usual.

But after the first time if you bring up the alert a second time (and every time thereafter) the paste option no longer works! The little magnifying glass still pops up but when it goes away, there is no paste option!

Anyone have any idea why this might be?

Great tutorial!
Can someone help me? I want to use this tutorial to make an option to rename items in my uitableview.

Thank you

Great Tutorial! I was wondering if there is a way to have something displayed after you hit the “OK!” button. Any help would be great. Thanks

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I also would like to know what Jeremiah asked.
Thanks in advance

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Be aware that though this code may have made it onto the store in the past Apple are being much more strict these days. I recently had an app refused for one reason only and that was because I used this code to put a UITextField in a UIAlertView. Once I stopped using this the app got in the store fine

I’m loving these blogs, keep em coming! ciao!

This tutorial really helped me, thanks!

For anyone looking to use a bigger text area, instead of UITextField, use UITextView. You have to do a bit of magic to get the alert view’s buttons to look right, but it’s easy. In the alert view’s init call:

[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@”Create Message:\n\n\n\n\n” …

This will put linebreaks in the title, pushing everything else down, including the message (so it won’t be hidden anymore).

This is awesome!

Your post has been very helpful many thanks!

I’m having trouble with this. I am running a view based game and when this alert pops up strange things happen. It displays nicely and then shrinks a bit, it then grows a bit, and then shrinks a bit etc. It also does not allow input, no keyboard comes up and the game locks.
Because it is a game I have the NSTimer set to cycle 60 times per second – does that cause my problem or is it because I do not have a ViewDidLoad method? – I have placed the code where I have a finished splash screen.
Thanks

Hello Matt,
can you please explain how you got the myTextField variable to work. I can not use the entered data.
Thanks

did you find out how to do this? im making a tic tac toe game and im trying to allow it to say “its (names) turn” below the game. currently i have it saying “its x’s turn” or “its y’x turn” so it would be cool if i could get it to display the players names , this would also help while playing over bluetooth or wifi
thanks

Thank You. Very helpful.

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Its pretty decent. Can’t expect too much out of it. Still a good watch

Thank you, Great instruction

Thank you for great information

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> message:@”this gets covered!”

Why in the world would I *WANT* my message to get covered????

Bad.

That sounds even better.

How would I do that?

> autoresize to any view.

Even the guy’s own “demo video” shows that keyboard blocking part of the CANCEL and OK buttons.

Doesn’t anyone see that?

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How do you capture the Name which the user enters in this program?