I was presenting a picker in UIActionSheet
very simply up until iOS 8. Now, it seems they have broken that capability with the latest update. It was never supported and the practice was discouraged in the docs all along.
Presumably the entire UIActionSheet
capability is deprecated and will not be supported going forward. The documentation says to use UIAlertController instead.
I have tried switching to the UIAlertController
and actually found what I initially expected would be a nicer solution than what I originally had presented.
My original code:
// Ask user for project to associate the new issue with a project
UIActionSheet *menu = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Select Project", @"Title for Action Sheet")
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:klocalized_CancelButtonTitle
destructiveButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:klocalized_SelectButtonTitle ,nil];
[menu addSubview:self.projectPicker];
[menu showFromTabBar:self.tabBarController.tabBar];
[menu setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 700)];
Worked fine in iOS 7.
My new code. Looks nicer but for some reason I cannot get the UITextField
to respect my setting of the inputView
property. It shows my text field with standard keyboard, otherwise this would be an acceptable alternative, better even than the original in my opinion.
New, work in progress for iOS 8:
// is iOS 8, ActionSheet, newly deprecated, will not allow subviews. Use UIAlertController instead
NSString *title = NSLocalizedString(@"Select Project", @"Title for Action Sheet");
UIAlertController *projectSelector = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:title message:nil preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
[projectSelector addAction:[UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:klocalized_CancelButtonTitle style:UIAlertActionStyleCancel handler:nil]];
[projectSelector addAction:[UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:klocalized_SelectButtonTitle style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:^(UIAlertAction *action) {
// Do my button action stuff here
}]];
[projectSelector addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:^(UITextField *textField) {
// projectField is lazily created property.
//My picker is set as its inputView but standard keyboard is always presented instead.
textField = self.projectField;
}];
[self presentViewController:projectSelector animated:YES completion:^{
// Do my final work here
}];
Can anyone tell me why this is happening? Is inputView
property of UITextfield
unusable on the new UIAlertController
view? Has anyone had success using UIPickerView
in this manner?
I haven't included my code for the projectField
or projectPicker
properties but I have tested and checked. They do create valid objects. The picker is retained by my presenting VC and the text field is weak, owned by the AlertViewController I assume. I tried retaining it as well, that had no effect.
I do receive UITextField
Delegate calls from the text field as well, so I know that it is the object that I created that is presented. I can think of no reason for the standard keyboard to show when I have clearly set the pickerView as its inputView
.
See resulting view in screenshot: