[MonoTouch] UIActionSheet 'Presenting action sheet clipped by its superview' warning

[Nic Wise]

self.ParentViewController

if (ParentViewController is UITabViewController)

etc :)

or just pass it in.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 15:04, Dan <mt_forums at ibase.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi Nic - thanks for posting a reply.
>
>
>
>> If it's just window -> myviewcontroller, you can most likely ignore
>> it. Also, if you can you use all buttons, esp the bottom ones, then
>> you should be ok.
>>
>
> It is, and all the buttons work fine, but being new to MT I wasn't sure how
> advisable it was to ignore warnings like this.
>
>
>
>> the problem arrises if you have a view who's parent is a tabbar
>> controller, and you use the view to show a sheet. Usually, the tab bar
>> area (bottom 40-odd pixels I think) block the action sheet, so you
>> can't touch the bottom buttons, even tho they appear on top of the tab
>> bar.
>>
>
> Funny you should say that, as this is exactly where I'm now at with trying
> to use UIActionSheet in a more 'real world' scenario. I have
>
> UITabBar -> UINavigationController -> UIViewController
>
> and need to show a sheet in the UIViewController using ShowFromTabBar(), but
> I'm not sure how to get a reference to the UITabBar which is in a different
> XIB.
>
>
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