ios - Problems with getting text from UIAlertView textfield

Question

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:

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.

Answer 1

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")
    })