prevent UIAlertView from dismissing

Question

As a form of validation, is there any way to prevent an alert view from dismissing when pressing an \"OK\" button?

Scenario: I have 2 text fields in the alertview fo

Answer 1

iOS 5 introduces a new property to UIAlertView to handle exactly this problem.

alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyleLoginAndPasswordInput;

Apple documentation on UIAlertView.

Add the new UIAlertViewDelegate method to handle the enabling/disabling of the button.

- (BOOL)alertViewShouldEnableFirstOtherButton:(UIAlertView *)alertView

Apple documentation on UIAlertViewDelegate.