App crashes when using AHAlertView project - objective-c

I'm trying to display a custom UIAlertView and I'm using AHAlertView:
https://github.com/warrenm/AHAlertView
I added both AHAlertView.m and .h to my project and add the following to the viewDidLoad method:
NSString *title = #"Alert View Title";
NSString *message = #"This is a message that might prompt you to do something.";
AHAlertView *alert = [[AHAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:title message:message];
__weak AHAlertView *weakAlert = alert;
[alert setCancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel" block:^{
weakAlert.dismissalStyle = AHAlertViewDismissalStyleTumble;
}];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:#"OK" block:^{
weakAlert.dismissalStyle = AHAlertViewDismissalStyleZoomDown;
}];
[alert show];
The problem is when I'm tapping either one of the buttons, the app crashes with:
"Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch"
I don't know what I did wrong, I looked at the sample project and this is the way the alert is being used.
How can I implement it correctly?

Did you activate -fno-objc-arc option ? If you did, deactivate it, AHAlertView support ARC

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I have several view controllers that need to make Parse services calls, which is therefore handled in a class for every "Parse" related work.
Now I have a case where the parse response will (if no errors comes up obviously) instantiate the MFMessageComposeViewController with certain parameters.
The text body comes from parse, the recipients comes from the class.
My problem is : I have copy/pasted code that I can't get rid off because I don't know what to do
In my controller class, I do this :
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[warningAlert show];
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}
and I have this exact same block of code in 3 different places, except for ONE difference, the SMS_TYPE parameter.
How should I tweak this so I don't have to create and assign the parameters in every controller, have one neat line that would look like this [??? setUpMessageControllerWithParam:recipients:body];
Pretty much the whole completion block here troubles me, but I can't really put it somewhere else because I'll have trouble presenting a view on self if self isn't a VC, same goes for delegates and alerts.
This is probably simple for most of you, I'm just OOP-retarded. Any help is much appreciated :)
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Why UIAlertView prevents my modal view controller from being displayed?

Let's say that when the user presses a button a message needs to be shown and then a modal view controller is displayed.
I would write something like that :
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delegate:nil
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[alert release];
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With this code, the modal view controller is simply not displayed !
However, if I switch the two blocks of code (show modal first, then show the alert), the view controller is displayed modally and the alert shows up above it, exactly as I want.
My question is: why the alert prevents the modal view controller from being displayed ?
Please note that I do not want to wait for alert to be dismissed before calling presentModalViewController.
Update :
I figured out that my production code was a bit more complicated than what I first put. I updated the example code and then finally found a simple example to reproduce the problem.
Note that in my production code, the popup is displayed from a place where I don't have any reference to a view controller, that's why I use [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController instead of a direct reference to a view controller
I finally found the answer. The issue really was on this line:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController
presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
When an alert is displayed, [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController is nil !. That's why the picker was never displayed. And that's why it worked when I switched the two blocks.
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Is there something special I need to do, like manually dismissing the sheet?
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It throws EXEC_BAD_ACCESS
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EXEC_BAD_ACCESS is basically due to ill Memory Management.Sometimes you unintentionally remove the object that is being used.
Try enable Zombies it will tell you the exact problem area.
Steps: Go to Edit Scheme
Memory Management
Check the option enable Zombie Objects

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I am getting a really weird error MFMailCompseViewController. The error is "error: address doesn't contain a section that points to a section in a object file". The app crashes after MFMailCompseViewController dismisses and the email actually get sent.
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case MFMailComposeResultSaved:
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case MFMailComposeResultSent:
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default:
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break;
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I'm getting the same error in my app, acting on a tap gesture on a HUD. My gesture recognizer method is using a block property on the HUD to perform the needful actions, and there's where it's crashing (the code within the block never gets to run). Apparently the program cannot access that code, and since you also have a completion block that might be a clue to what's happening.
I don't see that I'm doing anything wrong in my code, and you don't seem to be doing that either, so maybe it's a bug. Are you by any chance running a developer preview of Xcode (4.4 or 4.5)?
Edit: it turns out my problem was that the code block property was being released before it got the chance to run. I think a similar thing might happend in your case, with the alert var. Can you try moving the alert init within the completion block?
Edit 2: As an alternative, try prefixing the alert init with __weak (or __unsafe_unretained if you're targetting iOS 4.3), that should do it. If you're not using ARC, use __block instead.

UIAlertView title set sending "SIGABRT"

I'm new to Cocoa Touch and I'm just messing around trying to get a feel for the language and framework. So I'm just trying to create a simple app that takes text from a UITextField and just shows it in a UIAlertView here is the action method:
- (IBAction)showNotifAction:(id)sender {
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Try something like the following code:
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