UIActionSheet cancel button strange behaviour

Answer 1

Just found a possible answer:

01-Dec-2008 10:22 PM Tom Saxton: I looked at this bug some more, and it seems to be an issue with the tabbar.

If you call UIActionSheet's [sheet showInView:self.view] from a view controller that is a child of a UITabViewController, then the hit testing on the cancel button fails in that portion of the UIActionSheet that lies above the tabbar's view.

If you instead pass in the UITabBarController's view, then the UIActionSheet acts as expected.

NOTE: in iPhone OS 2.1 and earlier, the UIActionSheet came up from the top of the tab bar when you pass the child view, but in 2.2, it comes up from the bottom of the tab bar, and thus covers the tab view.

http://openradar.appspot.com/6410780

Edit: It works correctly when I change the view to be the tab bar's view

[sheet showInView:self.parentViewController.tabBarController.view];

Answer 2

I found an answer over here that works:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1174734/how-do-you-control-action-sheet-animation-direction

using: [filterActionSheet showInView:[self.view window]];

i tried a few ways to get to my tab bar and they way this app is set up it seem convoluted...

Answer 3

Instead use:

[sheet showFromTabBar:theTabBar];

Answer 4

I appparently can't 'vote up' another answer. If I could I would have for driveguy. [filterActionSheet showInView:[self.view window]]; is much easier and worked great for me. Rob

Answer 5

Thank you thank you thank you. This caused me an hour's frustration before I decided on a brute force google search. nevan's answer of 7/29 works well.

Answer 6

The accepted solution:

[sheet showInView:self.parentViewController.tabBarController.view];

worked best for me, as I was working within a subview of the "MORE" Navigational controller of the TabBar Delegate. The solution worked great to bring the ActionSheet right to the front for proper clicking of the "Cancel" button.

Answer 7

thanx nevan it workd..thnx again..

Answer 8

you are brilliant guys! Thank you so much. I was really frustrated and this saved me :)

Answer 9

The [sheet showInView:self.parentViewController.tabBarController.view]; does not work for me. Do you need other relevant code to use this line?

The [sheet showInView:[self.view window]]; works.

Answer 10

FYI - had the same problem with UIDocumentInteractionController's actionsheet stepping on the tabbar. Used the following to fix.

UIViewController *parentView = [[self parentViewController] parentViewController];
[docController presentOptionsMenuFromRect: rect inView: parentView.view animated:YES];