Could you put it in the same view out of visual view and scroll the view up 
when it's needed?

Eric
Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 26, 2011, at 6:09 PM, koko <k...@highrolls.net> wrote:

> I should have been more specific ... this is for an iPhone app which to me 
> says UIPickerView cannot be visible always because of it ponderous size.
> 
> -koko
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:51 PM, glenn andreas wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, koko wrote:
>> 
>>> So we have one vote for:
>>> 
>>> 3. Use a view in a layer of the current view
>>> 
>>> Any other views (no pun intended) ... going once going twice .... 
>>> 
>>> Any comments against :
>>> 
>>> 1. Use UIAlert - easy but seems clunky
>>> 
>>> -koko
>> 
>> 
>> Adding additional content in UIAlert is not recommended, since it requires a 
>> high degree of care and verges on something that can get an app rejected 
>> from the App Store. (you've got to do special casing for different versions 
>> of the OS and make bad assumptions about the layout of the subviews, and 
>> will quite likely break when the next OS release happens).
>> 
>> In general, if you can avoid making a UIPickerView "appear" as the result of 
>> an action, you'll be better off.  Make it part of the UI, always available, 
>> or use a different mechanism (for example, in a table view, just push a 
>> second table view onto the navigation controller and let the user select the 
>> element from that table view, just like Settings.app does, etc...)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Glenn Andreas                      gandr...@gandreas.com 
>> The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind 
>> to correlate all its contents - HPL
>> 
>> 
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