Xcode: Remove an array of textiews from screen - ios

Question

I'm currently adding 5 textviews onto the viewcontroller programatically inside the viewDidLoad method.
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
//Add 5 textviews
UITextView *reqTV = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(30,30,250,50)];
reqTV.text = #"This is a textview";
[self.view addSubview:reqTV];
}
If later, I want to delete (not hide) these 5 textviews with a button click, how would I do that?
I have thought of using this, but am not sure how to call all 5 textviews to delete them.
- (void)removeTextViewButton:(id)sender {
[reqTV removeFromSuperview]; //remove textview
}
Thank you.

Answer 1

I see two easy ways:
You can save your textViews inside array as ivar of your controller.
And later remove each textView in array.
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
...
[textViews addObject: reqTV];
...
}
- (void)removeTextViewButton:(UIButton *)sender {
[textViews makeObjectsPerformSelector:#selector(removeFromSuperview)];
}
2. Assign static tag for each textView:
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
...
reqTV.tag = 1001; // for example
}
- (void)removeTextViewButton:(UIButton *)sender {
NSArray *subs = [NSArray arrayWithArray: self.view.subviews];
for (UIView *sub in subs) {
if (sub.tag == 1001) {
[sub removeFromSuperview];
}
}
}

Answer 2

Used code below to remove UITextViews:
- (void)removeTextViewButton:(id)sender {
NSArray *reqTVViews = [NSArray arrayWithArray: self.view.subviews];
for (UIView *tvView in reqTVViews) {
if ([tvView isKindOfClass:[UITextView class]]) {
[tvView removeFromSuperview];
}
}
}

Answer 3

When you are adding UITextFields on viewController use tag value to uniquely identify each textField.
You can store each tag value in an array for further use, eg.
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableArray *tagArray;
NSMutableArray *tagArray = [NSMutableArray array];
for (int i = 101; i <= 105; i++ ) {
UITextField *txt = [UITextField alloc] init]; //for eg.
...
...
txt.tag = i;
[arr addObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:i]];
[self.view addSubView:txt];
}
When you want to delete any of the textField or all then...
UIView *view = [self.view viewWithTag:<tag value>];
[view removeFromSuperview];
eg.
for (int i = 0; i < tagArray.count; i++) {
NSInteger tag = [[arr objectAtIndex:i] intValue];
UITextField *txt = (UITextField *)[self.view viewWithTag:tag];
[txt removeFromSuperview];
}

Answer 4

You can remove all subview in one go
- (void)removeTextViewButton:(id)sender
{
for (UIView *subview in views.subviews)
{
[subview removeFromSuperview];
}
}
Happy Coding.. :)