One of my methods sends a message to an object (what do you know about that), and expects a BOOL for an answer. However, BOOL answer it is expecting is based on the answer to a UIAlertView created in the receiving object's method. However, the code doesn't pause while waiting for the user to answer the UIAlertView. My problem is: how do I use -alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex in the method's return value?

Here's the code the message runs (in this construction, I was expecting navigateAwayFromTab to change based on the user input in the UIAlertView, but it never gets a chance):

- (BOOL)readyToNavigateAwayFromTab {
    NSLog( @"message received by Medical View");
    navigateAwayFromTab = NO;
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
           initWithTitle:@"Navigate Away From Tab?"
                 message:@"Navigating away from this tab will save your work."
                delegate:self
       cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
       otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil
    ];
    [alert show];
    [alert release];
    return navigateAwayFromTab;
}
#define CANCEL 0
#define OK 1
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
    if( buttonIndex == OK ) navigateAwayFromTab = YES;
}

I've been reading up on the modal UIAlertView debate, and I agree with apple's implementation - at lest as the rule. However, in this case I don't see any way of solving the problem by putting code in -alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex because I don't need to run code based on the UIAlertView, I just need to read the response. Any suggestions on how I can reach my gaol? I've tried a while loop after [alert show] already, but then the alert doesn't even show then, and for a number of reasons I can't use -viewWillDisapear.