I have a counter in my app that has a reset button, but instead of resetting immediately after tapped, I want a UIAlertView to popup and have the user tap Reset again as a button in the alert. I'm not entirely well experienced in this so I would ask that your answer just simply add/replace parts of my code below. I'm working on this lol. Thanks for any help!
- (IBAction)reset {
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@"titleHere"
message:@"messageHere"
delegate: self
cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:@"Reset", nil];
alert.tag = TAG_RESET;
[alert show];
}
-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView
clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
if (alertView.tag == TAG_DEV) { [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.examplesite.com"]]; // just another alert don't worry about this one
} else if (alertView.tag == TAG_RESET) { // i need help here
}
}
So basically just an IBAction within an alert.
UPDATE:
How would I incorporate this to the button?
-(IBAction)zero {
counter=0;
count.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",counter];
}
UPDATE2:
So I did this, which now clears the count perfectly, the only issue is now the alert continues to pop up after you tap either cancel or reset...
-(IBAction)resetButtonPushed {
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"titleHere"
message:@"messageHere"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:@"Reset", nil];
alert.tag = TAG_RESET;
[alert show];
}
-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{
if (alertView.tag == TAG_DEV){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.examplesite.com"]]; // just another alert don't worry about this one
}
else if (alertView.tag == TAG_RESET) { [self resetButtonPushed]; {
counter=0;
count.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",counter];
} if ([[alertView buttonTitleAtIndex:buttonIndex] isEqualToString:@"Reset"]){
// Reset button tapped
}
}
}
I would advise against marking your zero
function as IBAction
when you're looking over your code later it will be confusing.
The naming of your reset method could also be confusing. I would suggest a more descriptive name. And also use of the standard IBAction
method signature of taking in a sender parameter. Like so:
-(IBAction)resetButtonPushed:(id)sender {
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"titleHere"
message:@"messageHere"
delegate: self
cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:@"Reset", nil];
alert.tag = TAG_RESET;
[alert show];
}
It would seem you are familiar with the UIAlertViewDelegate
paradigm of waiting for a callback. Since you are using -(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
you would use the clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
parameter passed into the delegate method. Like so:
-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{
if (alertView.tag == TAG_DEV){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.examplesite.com"]]; // just another alert don't worry about this one
}
else if (alertView.tag == TAG_RESET) {
if (buttonIndex == alertView.cancelButtonIndex){
// reset alert cancel button was tapped
}
else {
// Reset button tapped
}
}
}
Alternatively you could do something like:
if ([[alertView buttonTitleAtIndex:buttonIndex] isEqualToString:@"Reset"]){
// Reset button tapped
}
This section in response to comment
I'm not sure why you're having difficulty understanding how to call your zero
method. I assume it's because the term IBAction
is unnecessarily distracting you. IBAction
is another way of saying void
. The only difference is that when you use IBAction
interface builder "sees" the method. As far as code is concerned the following two method definitions are identical.
-(void)zero;
-(IBAction)zero;
Again I would also advise against the IBAction
and for a more descriptive method name. Perhaps something like:
-(void)zeroTheCounter {
counter=0;
count.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",counter];
}
You would of course call this method just like any other, to use it in the context from the above example.
else {
// Reset button tapped
[self zeroTheCounter];
}
Response to "edit 2" Of course it shows another alert view, you ask it to with the [self resetButtonPushed]
call in the alertview delegate method.
This edit uses the code currently in you question.
-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{
if (alertView.tag == TAG_DEV){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.examplesite.com"]]; // just another alert don't worry about this one
}
else if (alertView.tag == TAG_RESET) {
//[self resetButtonPushed]; { calling this will cause another alertview.
//counter=0; this is done is zero
//count.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",counter]; this is done in zero
//}
if ([[alertView buttonTitleAtIndex:buttonIndex] isEqualToString:@"Reset"]){
// Reset button tapped
[self zero];
}
}
}