IPHONE: UIAlertView called twice in a custom function/IBAction - iphone

Question

i have an IBAction which does some processing and within will have a few UIAlertViews (to show alerts). However it seems that the FIRST alert in the paragraph is being called TWICE (once immediately after i clicked and another time after all the other alerts has occured). Additionally, the first time the alert appears, the alert automatically closes even though i have an OK button and the user has not clicked on it. The 2nd time the alert appears, it will require the user to click on OK.
I tried moving the paragraph out from IBAction into its own function but still the problem occurs.
all the alerts in my IBAction/function are the same:
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"blah" message:#"blah" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
but the other alerts function normally.
the code looks like this ("blah" is the one being called twice):
-(void)function {
if (......) {
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"blah" message:#"blah" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
for (int i=0; i<2; i++) {
if (.....) {
//do stuff
} else {
UIAlertView *alert2 = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"blah2" message:#"blah2" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alert2 show];
[alert2 release];
}
}
} else {
UIAlertView *alert3 = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"blah3" message:#"blah3" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alert3 show];
[alert3 release];
}
}
please help!

Answer 1

First of all, we need more code to diagnose your problem. What you provide is not sufficient.
Second, I once encountered a similar problem: when a compose an email action is triggered by the user who didn't set up her email account on that device, I asked my app to show an UIAlertView. However, when I tested my code on a real device with such a scenario, two consecutive UIAlertViews showed, one after another, both of which are about the email account not set up issue.
I finally figured out that the iOS system will automatically show an UIAlertView when the email account is not set up while a user tries to compose an email, which is why two UIAlertViews showed up when I only expected one.
Hope that helps.