Check on UIAlertController TextField for enabling the button

Question

I have an AlertController with a text field and two button: CANCEL and SAVE. This is the code:

@IBAction func addTherapy(sender: AnyObject)
{
    let addAlertView = UIAlertController(title: "New Prescription", message: "Insert a name for this prescription", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)

    addAlertView.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel",
                                         style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,
                                         handler: nil))

    addAlertView.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Save",
                                         style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,
                                         handler: nil))

    addAlertView.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({textField in textField.placeholder = "Title"})


    self.presentViewController(addAlertView, animated: true, completion: nil)


}

What I want to do is implement a check on the textfield for disabling the SAVE button when the textfield is empty just like Pictures Application of iOS when you want create a NewAlbum. Please someone can explain me what to do?

Answer 1

There is a much simpler way without using notification center, in swift:

weak var actionToEnable : UIAlertAction?

func showAlert()
{
    let titleStr = "title"
    let messageStr = "message"

    let alert = UIAlertController(title: titleStr, message: messageStr, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

    let placeholderStr =  "placeholder"

    alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField: UITextField) in
        textField.placeholder = placeholderStr
        textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.textChanged(_:)), for: .editingChanged)
    })

    let cancel = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: { (_) -> Void in

    })

    let action = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { (_) -> Void in
        let textfield = alert.textFields!.first!

        //Do what you want with the textfield!
    })

    alert.addAction(cancel)
    alert.addAction(action)

    self.actionToEnable = action
    action.isEnabled = false
    self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

func textChanged(_ sender:UITextField) {
    self.actionToEnable?.isEnabled  = (sender.text! == "Validation")
}