Question

I hope to access UIAlertView using tag. The codes show below

UIAlertView *a=(UIAlertView *)[self.view  viewWithTag:presetTag]; 

but a returns no object(0x0)

I am looking to find a way to get the pointer to the UIAlertView object that is displayed without creating a reference to it in my UIViewController class that is displaying it. I am creating the UIAlertView and assigning it’s tag property a constant non-zero value, then displaying it via show and releasing the UIAlertView reference.

An example where this could come in handy is if I want to hide the alert view based on some other event that is not touching one of the buttons on the alert view. Say a server informs the app that the alert is no longer valid and so I dismiss with button index -1 on the alert view. But, I have no reference to that alert so how can I find it?

Welcome any comment

Thanks

interdev

Answer 1

Is this what you need? Specifically speaking, you can access each UIAlertView’s tag info through its tag property in protocol callback methods.

@protocol UIAlertViewDelegate <NSObject>
@optional

// Called when a button is clicked. The view will be automatically dismissed after this call returns
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex;

// Called when we cancel a view (eg. the user clicks the Home button). This is not called when the user clicks the cancel button.
// If not defined in the delegate, we simulate a click in the cancel button
- (void)alertViewCancel:(UIAlertView *)alertView;

- (void)willPresentAlertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView;  // before animation and showing view
- (void)didPresentAlertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView;  // after animation

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView willDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex; // before animation and hiding view
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex;  // after animation

@end