Question

I have a UIActionSheet that works just fine on the iPhone simulator. It is presented when the user touches a UIButton.

Using the iPad, I believe UIActionSheets are wrapped into a UIPopupController.

When I call the same code using the iPad simulator, I get a thin “line” displayed, which looks like a UIPopupController (you can see the small arrow that usually points to a control). None of the content can be seen.

What is the correct way to use a UIActionSheet using the iPad with MonoTouch? Here is a bit of sample code I have been testing with – creating the UIActionSheet:

var actionSheet = new UIActionSheet () { Style = UIActionSheetStyle.BlackTranslucent };
        actionSheet.Frame = actionSheetFrame;
        actionSheet.Clicked += (s, e) => { Console.WriteLine ("Clicked on item {0}", e.ButtonIndex); };
actionSheet.AddSubview (doneButton);

Then, I am showing the actionsheet by calling the following from a button:

btnSay.TouchUpInside += (sender, e) => {
            actionSheet.ShowFrom(tmpBtn.Frame, tmpView, false);
        };

I get something like the attached screenshot when using the iPad simulator.

For reference, here is what the UIActionSheet looks like when using the iPhone simulator.

Note: The project is a universal single-view MonoTouch c# project.

Any pointers or help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

I faced this same problem with a recent app I released to the app store.

When you show a UIActionSheet on iPad, iOS wraps the UIActionSheet in a UIPopoverView.

I used the following code to detect whether this is an iPad, and if it is, adjust the frame of the popover view:

const int CHROMEWIDTHLEFT = 9;
const int CHROMEWIDTHRIGHT = 8;
const int MARGIN = 50;

UIActionSheet _actionSheet;

...

if (UIDevice.CurrentDevice.UserInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.Pad) {
    var popover = _actionSheet.Superview.Superview;
    if (popover != null)
    {
        var x = _actionSheet.Frame.X + MARGIN;
        var y = (UIScreen.MainScreen.ApplicationFrame.Height - _actionSheet.Frame.Height) / 2;
        var width = _actionSheet.Frame.Width - (MARGIN * 2);
        var height = _actionSheet.Frame.Height;

        popover.Frame = new RectangleF (x, y, width, height);
        _actionSheet.Frame = new RectangleF (x, y, width - (CHROMEWIDTHLEFT + CHROMEWIDTHRIGHT), height - (CHROMEWIDTHLEFT + CHROMEWIDTHRIGHT));
    }
}

The example is based upon the Xamarin ActionSheet Date Picker here

I have put these up as a Gist (Normal and DatePicker)