Is there a simple way to create a modal button menu on the iPhone?

Question

Plenty of applications seem to do this. For example, go to Apple's mail application and press the "reply" button on the toolbar. You'll get a menu with buttons that say "Reply", "Reply All", "Forward" and "Cancel" that will scroll up from the bottom.

The way I figure I could do this is to create a short view in IB with the buttons I want, present it modally, and right a view controller to handle the buttons.

It seems like this is so common that there must be an easier way to do it (like how easy it is to add to the toolbar and navigation bar).

Is there some widget or shortcut that I am missing?

Answer 1

This is actually just a UIActionSheet. You can create one pretty easily.

http://ykyuen.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/iphone-uiactionsheet-example/

Answer 2

Just make a view controller with the controls you want in IB and then call [self presentModalViewController:[[[MyModalViewController alloc] init] autorelease] animated:YES] on the current view controller.