Question

I’m looking for an UIAlertView with a UITextField.

I’ve looked at this sample:
http://www.kevfoo.com/2009/11/monotouch-uialertview-uitextfield-crazy-delicious

But the sample is broken and I’m not skilled enough to fix it. The TextFieldAlertView class’ LayoutSubviews gets called 3 times and I think this is messing up the view. I can’t seam to fix it.

Are there a working sample of an UIAlertView with a UITextField that works with MonoTouch?

Answer 1

From Apple documentation:

Subclassing Notes

The UIAlertView class is intended to be used as-is and does not support subclassing. The view hierarchy for this class is private and must not be modified.

This is not supported – that means that:

• You can do it;
• A lot of people are doing it;
• It will break as often as Appple want to make changes in it;
• Be warned that there are reports (try Googling) of people being refused in the AppStore for doing so.