UIActionSheet on iPad frame too small - objective-c

Question

I am trying to display a UIActionSheet on the iPad with a UIPickerView in it, I have the equivalent code working for iPhone so my UIPickerView delegate and datasource stuff work, but on the iPad when I use -[UIActionSheet showFromRect:inView:animated:] the result UIPopover/UIActionSheet is way too small and I can not seem to set the frame size, also none of the buttons are displayed.
I don't know if this is because they are outside the bounds or there is something else going on. This is what my code looks like after I have removed all non-essential code (iPhone etc). Does anybody know what I am doing wrong, does anybody know of any examples.
CGRect thePickerFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320.0, 485.0);
UIPickerView * thePickerView = [[UIPickerView alloc] initWithFrame:thePickerFrame];
[pickerActionSheet release], pickerActionSheet =
[[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:#"Choose" delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
destructiveButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:#"Next", nil];
thePickerView.showsSelectionIndicator = YES;
thePickerView.dataSource = self;
thePickerView.delegate = self;
[pickerActionSheet addSubview:thePickerView];
[thePickerView selectRow:0 inComponent:0 animated:NO];
[thePickerView release];
[pickerActionSheet showFromRect:currentTextField.bounds
inView:currentTextField animated:NO];
pickerActionSheet.frame = thePickerFrame;

Answer 1

I think that UIActionSheet is not resizable, try to comment in your code the line with [pickerActionSheet addSubview:thePickerView]; and you will see that the ActionSheet fits perfecly to the buttons.
I would recommend a UIPopoverController with a custom UIViewController. Something like this:
UIToolbar *toolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44)];
toolbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleDefault;
UIBarButtonItem *cancelButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"back" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(BACK_ACTION:)];
UIBarButtonItem *chooseButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Choose" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
UIBarButtonItem *nextButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Next" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(NEXT_ACTION:)];
UIBarButtonItem *fixed1 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
UIBarButtonItem *fixed2 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
[toolbar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:cancelButton, fixed1, chooseButton, fixed2, nextButton, nil]];
UIPickerView *thePickerView = [[UIPickerView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 44, 320, 216)];
CGRect thePickerFrame = thePickerView.frame;
thePickerFrame.origin.y = toolbar.frame.size.height;
[thePickerView setFrame:thePickerFrame];
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] init];
[view addSubview:thePickerView];
[view addSubview:toolbar];
UIViewController *vc = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
[vc setView:view];
[vc setContentSizeForViewInPopover:CGSizeMake(320, 260)];
popover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:vc];
thePickerView.showsSelectionIndicator = YES;
thePickerView.dataSource = self;
thePickerView.delegate = self;
[thePickerView selectRow:0 inComponent:0 animated:NO];
[popover presentPopoverFromRect:currentTextField.bounds inView:currentTextField permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
Where popover is a class variable declared in .h (UIPopoverController *popover;).
By the way, I'm using ARC, so there is no release in the code.

Answer 2

I managed to make it work using a silly way.
For your reference:
Setup PickerView.
UIActionSheet's width can't be adjusted somehow, so have to adjust pickerView accordingly. Height wise, you can adjust with the amount of "\n" in actionSheet title.
UIDatePicker * pickerView = [[UIDatePicker alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 270, 220)];
pickerView.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate;
UIActionSheet * actionSheet = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:#"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil destructiveButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles: nil];
[actionSheet setActionSheetStyle:UIActionSheetStyleBlackTranslucent];
[actionSheet addSubview:pickerView];
[actionSheet showFromRect:button.frame inView:button.superview animated:YES];
[actionSheet release];
Set Frame or Bound doesn't work for me.
[actionSheet setBounds:pickerView.frame];
[actionSheet setFrame:pickerView.frame];
Agreed on using UIPopoverController, but don't know why, it got a serious UI delay when I put UIDatePickerView into popover (it took almost 1 sec lag to pop up) which I can't find the root cause. So have to fallback to above method.
Happy Coding.