[EDIT] Hmm. Perhaps this question should be titled \"what is the default user-input dialog view called in CocoaTouch?\" I realize that I can create an entire view that is
Explains how to set the number of columns, have not tested it.
http://iloveco.de/uikit-alert-types/
However there is a private method, setNumberOfRows:(int)n that will allow you to set a maximum number of rows to display the buttons in. To use this method we need to add our own additions to the UIAlertView class. We do this by adding an @interface for UIAlertView in our .m file.
// extend the UIAlertView class to remove the warning caused
// by calling setNumberOfRows.
@interface UIAlertView (extended)
- (void) setNumberOfRows:(int)num;
@end
This will allow us to call the method without the compiler throwing us a warning.
[myAlert setNumberOfRows:2];