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copied!<p>OK After a ton of digging, here is the result.</p> <p>Firstly, putting in 'UITextField UIAlertView' into SO's search returns dozens of hits.</p> <p>It turns out there is a method for doing this, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1767680/need-new-way-to-add-a-uitextfield-to-a-uialertview">Need new way to add a UITextField to a UIAlertView</a> but it is private API :|</p> <p>Pretty much every other solution involves hacking a UIAlertView, which is ugly: <a href="http://junecloud.com/journal/code/displaying-a-password-or-text-entry-prompt-on-the-iphone.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://junecloud.com/journal/code/displaying-a-password-or-text-entry-prompt-on-the-iphone.html</a><br> <a href="http://iphone-dev-tips.alterplay.com/2009/12/username-and-password-uitextfields-in.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://iphone-dev-tips.alterplay.com/2009/12/username-and-password-uitextfields-in.html</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/josecastillo/EGOTextFieldAlertView/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/josecastillo/EGOTextFieldAlertView/</a><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409599/how-to-move-the-buttons-in-a-uialertview-to-make-room-for-an-inserted-uitextfield">How to move the buttons in a UIAlertView to make room for an inserted UITextField?</a><br> ^ MrGando's answer is neat<br> <a href="http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/02/alert-view-with-prompt.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/02/alert-view-with-prompt.html</a><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4560346/getting-text-from-uialertview">Getting text from UIAlertView</a> </p> <p>The only proper solution I found (ie coding from scratch from a UIView) is here: <a href="https://github.com/TomSwift/TSAlertView" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/TomSwift/TSAlertView</a></p> <p>This is all it takes:</p> <pre><code>- (IBAction) importTap { TSAlertView* av = [[[TSAlertView alloc] init] autorelease]; av.title = @"Enter URL"; av.message = @""; [av addButtonWithTitle: @"Ok"]; [av addButtonWithTitle: @"Cancel"]; av.style = TSAlertViewStyleInput; av.buttonLayout = TSAlertViewButtonLayoutNormal; av.delegate = self; av.inputTextField.text = @"http://"; [av show]; } // after animation - (void) alertView: (TSAlertView *) alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex: (NSInteger) buttonIndex { // cancel if( buttonIndex == 1 ) return; LOG( @"Got: %@", alertView.inputTextField.text ); } </code></pre> <p>and Presto!</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DU7eK.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

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