I would like to make an alert type box so that when the user tries to delete something, it says, "are you sure" and then has a yes or no for if they are sure. What would be the best way to do this in iphone?
A UIAlertView
is the best way to do that. It will animate into the middle of the screen, dim the background, and force the user to address it, before returning to the normal functions of your app.
You can create a UIAlertView
like this:
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Wait" message:@"Are you sure you want to delete this. This action cannot be undone" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Delete" otherButtonTitles:@"Cancel", nil];
[alert show];
That will display the message.
Then to check whether they tapped delete or cancel, use this:
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{
if (buttonIndex == 0){
//delete it
}
}
Make sure in your header file (.h
), you include the UIAlertViewDelegate
by putting <UIAlertViewDelegate>
, next to whatever your class inherits from (ie. UIViewController
or UITableViewController
, etc.)
For more infomation on all the specifics of UIAlertViews
check out Apple's Docs Here
Hope that helps
The post is quite old, but still a good question. With iOS 8 the answer has changed. Today you'd rather use 'UIAlertController' with a 'preferredStyle' of 'UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet'.
A code like this (swift) that is bound to a button:
@IBAction func resetClicked(sender: AnyObject) {
let alert = UIAlertController(
title: "Reset GameCenter Achievements",
message: "Highscores and the Leaderboard are not affected.\nCannot be undone",
preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet)
alert.addAction(
UIAlertAction(
title: "Reset Achievements",
style: UIAlertActionStyle.Destructive,
handler: {
(action: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
gameCenter.resetAchievements()
}
)
)
alert.addAction(
UIAlertAction(
title: "Show GameCenter",
style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,
handler: {
(action: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
self.gameCenterButtonClicked()
}
)
)
alert.addAction(
UIAlertAction(
title: "Cancel",
style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel,
handler: nil
)
)
if let popoverController = alert.popoverPresentationController {
popoverController.sourceView = sender as UIView
popoverController.sourceRect = sender.bounds
}
self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
would produce this output:
EDIT: The code crashed on iPad, iOS 8+. If added the necessary lines as described here: on another stack overflow answer
For swift it is very simple.
//Creating the alert controller
//It takes the title and the alert message and prefferred style
let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Hello Coders", message: "Visit www.simplifiedios.net to learn xcode", preferredStyle: .Alert)
//then we create a default action for the alert...
//It is actually a button and we have given the button text style and handler
//currently handler is nil as we are not specifying any handler
let defaultAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Close Alert", style: .Default, handler: nil)
//now we are adding the default action to our alertcontroller
alertController.addAction(defaultAction)
//and finally presenting our alert using this method
presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
Everyone's saying UIAlertView. But to confirm deletion, UIActionSheet is likely the better choice. See When to use a UIAlertView vs. UIActionSheet
UIAlertView seems the obvious choice for confirmation.
Set the delegate to the controller and implement the UIAlertViewDelegate protocol http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIAlertViewDelegate_Protocol/UIAlertViewDelegate/UIAlertViewDelegate.html
Use the UIAlertView class to display an alert message to the user.
Use an UIAlertView:
UIAlertView *av = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert Title"
message:@"are you sure?"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:@"No"
otherButtonTitles:@"Yes", nil];
[av show];
[av autorelease];
Make sure you implement:
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
To handle the response.
To pop an alert message use UIAlertView.
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Wait" message:@"Are you sure you want to delete this." **delegate:self** cancelButtonTitle:@"Delete" otherButtonTitles:@"Cancel", nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
Once you set the delegate as self you can perform your action on this method
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
Being that UIAlertView
is now deprecated, I wanted to provide an answer to future coders that come across this.
Instead of UIAlertView
, I would use UIAlertController
like so:
@IBAction func showAlert(_ sender: Any) {
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "My Alert", message: "This is my alert", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: {(action) in
alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}))
self.present(alert,animated:true, completion:nil)
}
Here i provided the alert message, which i used in my first app:
@IBAction func showMessage(sender: UIButton) {
let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Welcome to My First App",
message: "Hello World",
preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK",
style: UIAlertActionStyle.default,
handler: nil))
present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
with appropriate handlers for user responses.
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5863481/how-to-create-an-alert-box-in-iphone