Multiple UIAlertViews to Enter Data - ios

Question

I have two buttons that will pop up an alertview with textfield to input data. However, only certain characters are allowed in each of the two textfields. Somehow, if I press the second button, the character set from the first button is used. What's going on here?
Also, what would be a more elegant form of inputting data without having to use an alertview? Could I use a modal view? If so, how?
- (IBAction)editRate
{
if(!self.powerOn) return;
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Edit Jail Fee Rate"
message:#"Enter New Daily Rate"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:#"Ok", nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[[alert textFieldAtIndex:0] setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];
[alert show];
}
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if (buttonIndex != alertView.cancelButtonIndex)
{
UITextField *field = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0];
field.placeholder = #"Enter New Rate";
NSCharacterSet * set = [[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:#"0123456789."] invertedSet];
if ([field.text rangeOfCharacterFromSet:set].location != NSNotFound)
{
UIAlertView *errorAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Error" message:#"Only numbers are allowed in this field."delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK"otherButtonTitles:nil];
[errorAlert show];
FeeRate.text=#"0.00";
}
else
{
FeeRate.text = field.text;
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:field.text forKey:RATE_KEY];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
}
}
else
{
}
}
- (IBAction)editDate
{
if(!self.powerOn) return;
UIAlertView *alertDate = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Edit Jail Fee Date"
message:#"Enter New Date"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:#"Ok", nil];
alertDate.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[[alertDate textFieldAtIndex:0] setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];
[alertDate show];
}
- (void)alertDate:(UIAlertView *)alertDate clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex2
{
if (buttonIndex2 != alertDate.cancelButtonIndex)
{
UITextField *fieldDate = [alertDate textFieldAtIndex:0];
fieldDate.placeholder = #"Enter New Date";
NSCharacterSet * setnew = [[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:#"0123456789/"] invertedSet];
if ([fieldDate.text rangeOfCharacterFromSet:setnew].location != NSNotFound)
{
UIAlertView *errorAlert1 = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Error" message:#"Only numbers and slashes are allowed in this field."delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK"otherButtonTitles:nil];
[errorAlert1 show];
FeeDate.text=#"00/00/0000";
}
else
{
FeeDate.text = fieldDate.text;
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:fieldDate.text forKey:DATE_KEY];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
}
}
else
{
}
}

Answer 1

When a UIAlertView is dismissed then a function called
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
is called.
So, both your alert views call this function.
One way to tell which alertView is calling it, you could create an ivar or better two properties like this:
#property (nonatomic, strong) UIAlertView *rateAlert;
#property (nonatomic, strong) UIAlertView *dateAlert;
and you should initialize like this:
[self setRateAlert:[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle...
[self.rateAlert show];
and
[self setDateAlert:[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle...
[self.dateAlert show];
and then:
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if (alertView==self.rateAlert) {
//do whatever for rateAlert
} else {
//do whatever with dateAlert
}
}