Button touchupinside action done automatically on view appear? - iphone

I want Button action done automatically when a view load. Is it possible?

The other answers are correct in that setting the action that your button is tied to, then in your viewDidLoad:, call that function will work. I will just chime in with another method for others info.
You can send it a control event telling it that the button should act as if it has been pressed:
[button sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
This is useful when you do not have an outlet to the button. For instance, I created an app where the user can press on a web view and launch a youtube video. It was also required that if the user presses a "video" button, then the same youtube video would launch. Basically, I had to fire a press event on the web view. So i searched through its views and found the button, from there I called the above line, and the webview pushes a video view controller for the youtube video.

Certainly Yes. Call your method as
assuming your method declaration as
-(IBAction)yourButtonTapEvent:(id)sender;
[self yourButtonTapEvent:nil];

Yes, in your viewDidAppear method, just call the action you are providing for that specific button.
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self yourButtonAction:nil];
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
}

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SenTesting for iOS programmatically press button?

So in some of the apple sample code I see things like this for application testing:
[viewController press:[calcView viewWithTag: 6]]; // 6
However when I try to do that with my own viewcontrollers/views all I am getting is "No visible interface declares press"... where is the documentation for application SenTesting on iOS, and in particular how do you go about doing UI testing (programmatically press a button, etc) within iOS?
Without seeing the sample code, I would guess that the view controller has a UIAction -press:. It should expect the nib to wire button presses to this action.
Instead of simulating the event, the test directly calls the action touch event would call.
After looking a bit, I think you may want how to programmatically fake a touch event to a UIButton?.
First you need to get a reference to the UIButton. If it's already set as an outlet in the view controller, you can use that. So, I'll assume your viewController has an IBOutlet for that UIButton named 'button'
[viewController.button sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
For the Swift 2.0 solution
viewController.button.sendActionsForControlEvents(.TouchUpInside)

How can I create some view over UIKeyBoard?

I fill information then tap "Done" button for doing some process and show loading view for waiting.
I need loading view is over every view, but How can I do?
Thanks for adviser.
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You should make your keyboard disappear from the screen as soon as user taps on done button.
call this method
[myTextField resignFirstResponder]
when you start loading
this is the best answer for your question
[textField setInputAccessoryView:inputAccessoryView];
Did you observe the UIKeyboardWillShowNotification and UIKeyboardDidShowNotification notifications? You can update the view elements in the handlers.
Try to add the loading HUDView ro whatever you are using for the purpose on the application's keywindow.
as
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview:loadingView];
ALso resigning the responder while the loadingview is displayed is really a very important thing you should do.
[myTextField resignFirstResponder]

Is there a way to dismiss an alertview automatically after some time?

I'm looking for a way, to automatically dismiss an alert view after some time or after a task is done.
Is there a possibility? (or another way to show a message for some time?)
You can call the -dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:animated: method to dismiss the alert view.
To dismiss it automatically, create an NSInvocation and then use -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: to -invoke it.
UIAlertView has a method called:
- ( void )dismissWithClickedButtonIndex: ( NSInteger )buttonIndex animated:( BOOL )animated
You can call it on your UIAlertView object to simulate a button press.
To dismiss it automatically after some time, you will need something like an NSTimer, to check if the alert view is still displayed, and in such a case, dismiss it.

UIWebView/MPMoviePlayerController and the "Done" button

I am using the UIWebView to load both streaming audio and video. I have properly set up the UIWebView delegate and I am receiving webViewDidStartLoading and webViewFinishedLoading events perfectly. The webview launches a full screen window (likely a MPMoviePlayerController)
Apple's MoviePlayer example gets the array of Windows to determine which window the moviePlayerWindow is for adding custom drawing/getting at the GUI components. I believe this to be a bad practice/hack.
My expectation is that I should be able to figure out when that button was clicked by either a delegate method or an NSNotification. It may also be the case that I have to poke around subviews or controllers with isKindOf calls, but I don't think those are correct approaches.
Are my expectations incorrect, and if so, why?
What is the correct way to bind an action to that "Done" button?
There isn't an MPMoviePlayer instance method that covers this. You can use - (void) moviePlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification*)notification to find out when the movie has finished. Or you could overlay the existing Done button with your own and have complete control that way.
You can also use MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification in order to conrol the action provided that youe MoviePlayer is in fulscreen mode.

UIAlertViewDelegate clickedButtonAtIndex: usefulness?

The UIAlertViewDelegate protocol defines two methods, alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex: and alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex:, which seem to me to be identical in usefulness.
Why is there a clickedButtonAtIndex and a didDismissButtonWithIndex when they both do the same thing? I realize there is also a willDismissButtonWithIndex that happens before the alert view is dismissed, but is there any reason to use clickedButtonAtIndex instead of didDismissButtonWithIndex?
I found a more useful difference between the two:
When showing a UIAlertView, and the device goes to sleep, alertView:didDismissWithButtonAtIndex: gets called, even though the alert view is not actually dismissed. It is shown again once the device wakes up. alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex: is only called when the user clicks one of the buttons.
The alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex: is called when the user clicks a button on an alert view whereas the alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex: is called after an alert view is dismissed from the screen. (See the UIAlertViewDelegate Protocol Reference.)
The difference is minimal but it allows you to do something before or after animation.
If the alert view disappears for any reason (including being covered by another UIAlertView, going to sleep, etc.), didDismissWithButtonAtIndex: is called. This can mean that the method can be called even without the user clicking on anything. This can lead to unexpected behaviour if you depend on this delegate callback to be called in response to the user actually clicking on a button. In this case clickedButtonAtIndex: is more useful.
I couldn't reproduce Ed's behaviour by locking my device with the alert view present on iOS 7.
However, the most important difference between alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex:, alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex: and alertView:willDismissWithButtonIndex: is that the first method (clickedButtonAtIndex:) is only called when the user explicitly taps on a button on your alert view (hence 'clicked').
Is it possible that an alert view is dismissed without clicking on a button? Yes, you could programmatically hide an alert view using the UIAlertView method dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:animated:.
So, if you need some behavior to be always triggered upon the dismissal of the alert view—whether it was triggered by the user tapping on a button or triggered programmatically—then using the didDismissWithButtonIndex: and willDismissWithButtonIndex: makes more sense.