cocoa touch - UITextField in UIAlertView on iPhone - how to make it responsive?

Question

I placed a UITextField into a UIAlertView and moved it up so the keyboard wouldn't cover it up with the following code:

[dialog setDelegate:self];
[dialog setTitle:@"Enter Name"];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
UITextField * nameField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20.0, 45.0, 245.0, 25.0)];
[nameField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[dialog addSubview:nameField];
CGAffineTransform moveUp = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 100.0);
[dialog setTransform: moveUp];
[dialog show];

I also have the following code to deal with the alert view:

- (void) alertView:(UIAlertView *)alert clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{    
    NSLog(@"%d", (int) buttonIndex);
    if (buttonIndex == 1) { // OK pushed
        NSLog([alert textField].text); // does not log anything
    } else {
        // Cancel pushed
}}

I also have a UIAlertViewExtended.h file that contains:

@class UITextField, UILabel;

@interface UIAlertView(Extended)

-(UITextField *)textField;

@end

My question is how do I get the text the user entered and how do I dismiss the keyboard?

Thanks, Ben

Answer 1

Anyone supporting iOS 5.0 onwards with ARC, there's this direct alertViewStyle property you can set:

-(void)showAlertWithTextField{
    UIAlertView* dialog = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Enter Name" message:@"" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Add", nil];    
    [dialog setAlertViewStyle:UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput];

    // Change keyboard type
    [[dialog textFieldAtIndex:0] setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];
    [dialog show];
}

-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex{
    if (buttonIndex == 1)
        NSLog(@"%@",[[alertView textFieldAtIndex:0]text]);
}