Preloaded text in an alert

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to have an alert with preloaded text in it. For example, if my app guessed something I would want the guess to appear in the alert text box but the user could delete the text and change the answer if they wanted to.

Thank you

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:28

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yes you can. You can create a custom alertView from a xib and you can input there an UITextField ,so the user can have the opportunity to change the text

answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:28

Enea Dume

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I don't think he needs any kind nib, You can add a textfield directly to the alert controller – Khalid Afridi Oct 25 '17 at 09:30
yes of course, i was saying if he wants it more custom anyway both solutions are valuable – Enea Dume Oct 25 '17 at 09:33
have you tried to create custom class for alerting/? and put it to viewWillAppear? – swift2geek Oct 25 '17 at 10:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:28

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Simply Create an alert controller leave the title and message empty and add a TextField to your alert that way you can preload your text to the TextField and user can also edit the text

answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:28

Khalid Afridi

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:30

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Have you had a look at this page : How to add a TextField to UIAlertView in Swift ?

You could put textfields (or anything else you'd like) inside the alertview and so that the user could interact with it more deeply :)

Vincent

answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:30

Vincent Monteil

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@Anon4321 my pleasure :) – Vincent Monteil Oct 25 '17 at 11:37

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 09:43

Just add text field in alert controller.

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "title", message: "please enter words", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)

alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (txtUsername) -> Void in
     usernameTextField?.text = "preload"
     usernameTextField?.placeholder = "placeholder"

 }

self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Preloaded text in an alert

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