Adding TextField to UIAlertView - iphone

Question

I need to add a TextField to an UIAlertView. I understand that apple discourage this approach. So is there any library that i could make use of to add a TextField to a UIAlertView look-alike frame ?

Answer 1

For iOS5:
UIAlertView *av = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Title" message:#"Please enter someth" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:#"OK", nil];
av.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[av textFieldAtIndex:0].delegate = self;
[av show];
Also, you 'll need to implement UITextFieldDelegate, UIAlertViewDelegate protocols.

Answer 2

Unfortunately the only official API for this is iOS 5 and up, it's a property called alertViewStyle which can be set to the following parameters:
UIAlertViewStyleDefault
UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput
UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput
UIAlertViewStyleLoginAndPasswordInput
UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput being the one you want.
Messing with the view hierarchy as described above is strongly discouraged by Apple.

Answer 3

I'm using BlockAlertsAndActionSheets instead of the Apple components for AlertViews and ActionSheets as I prefer the blocks-approach. Also contains a BlockTextPromptAlertView in the source, which might be what you want. You can replace the images of that control to get the Apple-style back.
Project on gitgub
Tutorial which gets you started
Example:
- (IBAction)newFolder:(id)sender {
id selfDelegate = self;
UITextField *textField;
BlockTextPromptAlertView *alert = [BlockTextPromptAlertView promptWithTitle :#"New Folder"
message :#"Please enter the name of the new folder!"
textField :&textField];
[alert setCancelButtonWithTitle:#"Cancel" block:nil];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:#"Okay" block:^{
[selfDelegate createFolder:textField.text];
}];
[alert show];
}
- (void)createFolder:(NSString*)folderName {
// do stuff
}

Answer 4

Try something like this:
UIAlertView *alert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Title"
message:#"\n\n"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:#"Save", nil] autorelease];
CGRect rect = {12, 60, 260, 25};
UITextField *dirField = [[[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:rect] autorelease];
dirField.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[dirField becomeFirstResponder];
[alert addSubview:dirField];
[alert show];

Answer 5

As of iOS 8 UIAlertView has been deprecated in favor of UIAlertController, which adds support for adding UITextFields using the method:
- (void)addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:(void (^)(UITextField *textField))configurationHandler;
See this answer for an example.

Answer 6

You can try:
UIAlertView *myAlertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Your title here!" message:#"this gets covered" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:#"OK", nil];
UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
[myTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[myAlertView addSubview:testTextField];
[myAlertView show];
[myAlertView release];
Follow this link for detail.

Answer 7

first of All Add UIAlertViewDelegate into ViewController.h File like
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface UIViewController : UITableViewController<UIAlertViewDelegate>
#end
and than Add Below Code where you wants to alert Display,
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Title"
message:#"Message"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Done"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[alert show];
and it's delegate method which returns what input of UItextField
-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
NSLog(#"%#", [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0].text);
}

Answer 8

adding to answer from 'Shmidt', the code to capture text entered in UIAlertView is pasted below (thank you 'Wayne Hartman' Getting text from UIAlertView)
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
if (buttonIndex == 1) {
self.userNumber = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0].text;
if (self.userNumber) {
// user enetered value
NSLog(#"self.userNumber: %#",self.userNumber);
} else {
NSLog(#"null");
}
}
}

Answer 9

refer this... http://iosdevelopertips.com/undocumented/alert-with-textfields.html this is private api and if you use it for app in appstore it might get rejected but it is fine for enterprise development.