UIActionSheet truncates long strings! Alternatives?

Question

I have a UIActionSheet which gives the user a few standard choices. The text on the buttons, however, does not cleverly scale down like a text field though when there's too much-- it just truncates with an ellipsis.

I need to say a little more in on of my action sheet buttons than there's room for. I don't see any way of changing the action sheet's behavior, unfortunately. Any thoughts on alternatives?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could put some of the descriptive text in the UIActionSheet's title property, and then give just the verb or something concise in the button titles.

One alternative is: you might want to create a full-screen view that you show with presentModalViewController:animated:, where you have more space to show the text.

A third alternative is to create a UIView that animates up with UIButtons that you can customize, but doesn't fill the entire screen. I do that with some of my apps where the Settings are in a tab that slides up but doesn't need to cover the entire screen.