Chapter 3 page 56, UIActionSheet

[email protected] · February 12th, 2011, 12:45 PM

Hi,
I'm having trouble running the "UsingViews" example using the UIActionSheet. The UIAlertView example runs fine. Here's what I have:

// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
/*
UIAlertView statements removed...
*/
UIActionSheet *action = [[UIActionSheet alloc]
initWithTitle:@"My action sheet"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
destructiveButtonTitle:@"Delete message"
otherButtonTitles:@"Option 1", @"Option 2", nil];
[action showInView:self.view];
[action release];
/* I get the error with the statement below both active and commented-out
/* [super viewDidLoad]; */
}

I get an "EXEC_BAD_ACCESS" in the debugger. What's interesting is that when I am entering the [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle... definition, autofill does not want to complete the "destructiveButtonTitle" selector and I need to fill it out myself, as if it doesn't know anything about this selector. It's documented in the Developer Documentation. This seems to be a relevant portion of the crash dump:

19 UIKit 0x00638b89 -[UIActionSheet(Private) _addButtonWithTitle:label:buttonClass:] + 400
20 UIKit 0x0063497b -[UIActionSheet addButtonWithTitle:] + 57
21 UIKit 0x0063cf5c -[UIActionSheet initWithTitle:delegate:cancelButtonTitle:destructi veButtonTitle:otherButtonTitles:] + 131
22 UsingViews 0x00002304 -[UsingViewsViewController viewDidLoad] + 148 (UsingViewsViewController.m:48)
23 UIKit 0x0035e65e -[UIViewController view] + 179
24 UsingViews 0x00002321 -[UsingViewsViewController viewDidLoad] + 177 (UsingViewsViewController.m:49)
25 UIKit 0x0035e65e -[UIViewController view] + 179
26 UsingViews 0x00002321 -[UsingViewsViewController viewDidLoad] + 177 (UsingViewsViewController.m:49)

[email protected] · February 12th, 2011, 03:48 PM

I was not looking so much for help in debugging, but rather to see if anyone else came across this problem. Also, for some reason there is a space in the debug output that does not exist in the actual code:

21 UIKit 0x0063cf5c -[UIActionSheet initWithTitle:delegate:cancelButtonTitle:destructi veButtonTitle:otherButtonTitles:] + 131

I'll revisit and see if there are any hidden characters. Any replies are much appreciated. Thanks!

thepianoguy · February 12th, 2011, 07:53 PM

You can't call the ActionSheet in the -viewDidLoad method since the view has not yet been assigned to a window.

Try this short experiment. Add the following to

Code:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    NSLog(@"in application did finish launching");
    
    // Override point for customization after app launch. 
    [self.window addSubview:viewController.view];
    [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
    NSLog(@"in application did finish launching");
	return YES;
}

Code:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
	NSLog(@"in view did load");		
    [super viewDidLoad];
}

and note the flow.

Since viewController has not yet been assigned to a window you can't tell the action sheet to display itself. There is no window yet, for it to do so. You can either create an action method in your viewController activated by a button in the interface for example, or do the following:

Code:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    NSLog(@"in application did finish launching");
    
    // Override point for customization after app launch. 
    [self.window addSubview:viewController.view];
    [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
	 NSLog(@"in application did finish launching");
	
	UIActionSheet *action = [[UIActionSheet alloc]
			                            initWithTitle:@"Title of ActionSheet"
							 delegate:viewController
					      cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
					destructiveButtonTitle:@"Delete Message"
					       otherButtonTitles:@"Option 1", @"Option 2",nil];
	[action showInView:viewController.view];
	[action release];
	return YES;
}

To test out the code snippet.

Also make sure that the viewController conforms to the <UIActionSheetDelegate>

If you include this in your header the initWithTitleâ¦ method should autocomplete

Bob

[email protected] · February 12th, 2011, 10:34 PM

Thanks a bunch!
I did notice in the debugger that it was calling the statements in viewDidLoad method in some sort of tight loop, and it took several seconds for the app to crash-- probably was an OOM or perhaps some sort of recursion limit was reached.

PRM