Problems with getting text from UIAlertView textfield

Pascal Ackermann Published at Dev

Pascal Ackermann

In my application I want a alert with a textfield. After clicking on "Done" I want to save the textfield input in a String. After clicking on "Cancel" I want only to close the alert. I've created my alert like this:

    var alert = UIAlertView()
    alert.title = "Enter Input"
    alert.addButtonWithTitle("Done")
    alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyle.PlainTextInput
    alert.addButtonWithTitle("Cancel")
    alert.show()

    let textField = alert.textFieldAtIndex(0)
    textField!.placeholder = "Enter an Item"
    println(textField!.text)

The alert looks like this:

My alert

I want to know how to get the text from the textfield, and how to create events for the "Done" button and the "Cancel" button.

iRiziya

You may go with UIAlertController instead of UIAlertView.

I've already implemented and tested too using UIAlertController for what you actually want. Please try the following code

    var tField: UITextField!

    func configurationTextField(textField: UITextField!)
    {
        print("generating the TextField")
        textField.placeholder = "Enter an item"
        tField = textField
    }

    func handleCancel(alertView: UIAlertAction!)
    {
        print("Cancelled !!")
    }

    var alert = UIAlertController(title: "Enter Input", message: "", preferredStyle: .Alert)

    alert.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler(configurationTextField)
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .Cancel, handler:handleCancel))
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Done", style: .Default, handler:{ (UIAlertAction) in
        print("Done !!")

        print("Item : \(self.tField.text)")
    }))
    self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: {
        print("completion block")
    })

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