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Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers
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Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers


  • Subject: Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers
  • From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:58:34 -0800
  • Importance: Normal

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

(As a general thought, though, it would appear that UIAlertController
should be a singleton app-wide, and it should manage its own serialized
presentation. Any other solution seems like external plumbing to fix a
design problem.)
-Carl

> Pretty sure the WWDC 2015 video on NSOperations tackles a similar scenario
> in a quite elegant way. That might be worth investigating.
>
> Peter
>
>> On Nov 5, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>> A queue of what? I would think that if only a single alert view can be
>> presented at a time, then iOS would serialize them and present them when
>> earlier ones complete. Is there no system-level solution to this?
>> -Carl
>>
>>
>>> Make a queue.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Nov 5, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Carl Hoefs
>>>> <email@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't want more than 1 alert presented at a time, of course, but
>>>> they
>>>> get generated asynchronously. I thought dispatch_get_main_queue()
>>>> would
>>>> nicely serialize any that occur. Thus David's comment that I'm just
>>>> getting the requests issued in a serialized fashion.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not certain how to have alerts that are scattered all throughout
>>>> the
>>>> app to wait until some other alert's completion block executes. Are
>>>> you
>>>> saying to have it control a global flag or some such?
>>>> -Carl
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 5, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Eric E Dolecki <email@hidden>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That's the way. You should never need more than one presented at a
>>>>> time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iP6+
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 5, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Tomasz Muszyński <email@hidden>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should present next UIAlertController when first one has been
>>>>>> dismissed (when UIAlertAction handler is called).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tomek
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wiadomość napisana przez Carl Hoefs
>>>>>>> <email@hidden> w dniu 05.11.2015, o godz. 23:37:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> iOS 9.1, iPhone 5S, ObjC
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm getting the following runtime warning due to multiple
>>>>>>> simultaneous UIAlertControllers presenting at the same time:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Warning: Attempt to present <UIAlertController: 0x1835c000> on
>>>>>>> <MyViewController: 0x17d26e70> which is already presenting
>>>>>>> <UIAlertController: 0x18381400>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know only one alert view controller can be presenting at a time,
>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>> the way I thought to serialize execution of each
>>>>>>> -presentViewController:: is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    dispatch_async( dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
>>>>>>>                        [ self presentViewController: alert
>>>>>>>                                            animated: YES
>>>>>>>                                          completion: nil ];
>>>>>>>                    });
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why isn't dispatch_get_main_queue() enforcing serialized execution?
>>>>>>> Is there another way to do this?
>>>>>>> -Carl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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 >Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Tomasz Muszyński <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Eric E Dolecki <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Multiple simultaneous UIAlertControllers (From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>)
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