Re: UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

Thanks, that got it going. It's a compromise. Maybe the options will be expanded in future iOS releases... -Carl > On Mar 21, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Saagar Jha wrote: > > That should be lot easier; just set yourself as the text field’s delegate and > override

Re: UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

That should be lot easier; just set yourself as the text field’s delegate and override textFieldShouldBeginEditing. Saagar Jha > On Mar 21, 2017, at 12:24, Carl Hoefs wrote: > > Alternately, is there a way to configure the alert to defer the launch of the >

Re: UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

Alternately, is there a way to configure the alert to defer the launch of the keyboard until/unless the user wants to edit the textfield (by touching it)? Generally it won't need to be edited, maybe just the first time or so, thus having the keyboard always coming up would be distracting. -

Re: UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

Thanks for the hint. In the debugger I discovered that what looks to be a UITextField displayed across the bottom of the alert is actually implemented as a private object of class UIAlertControllerTextField. So I can restrict the text to a portion of the textfield, but I can't find a way to

Re: UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

I haven’t tested this, but have you tried calling [self layoutIfNeeded] in the completion block of [self presentViewController:animated:completion]? Saagar Jha > On Mar 20, 2017, at 16:09, Carl Hoefs wrote: > > iOS 10.2.1 > > I'm using UIAlertController

UITextField width of UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:

iOS 10.2.1 I'm using UIAlertController -addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler: to display an alert with a textfield. Is there any way to shorten the width of the displayed textfield? I've tried setting its frame/bounds, but it has no effect. -Carl