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Reputation: 559

How do I get a UITextField to accept focus without showing the keyboard?

I am trying to find a way to prevent the keyboard from appearing when the user taps on a TextField but could`t find a way to do it.

I tried this code after I linked my textField to delegate and still it did not work for me, the code was logging but the keyboard did appear.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField { 
    NSLog(@"BeginEditing");
    return YES;
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
}

When I return with NO I lose the focus from the textField, which I need.

The textFields I have are filled with values from a buttons on the same view, thats why I don't want the keyboard to appear, and at the same time I want the user to select the textField they want to fill.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5884

Answers (5)

jack
jack

Reputation: 73

This will help you for sure.

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField*)textField {
UIView *dummyView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)];
activeField.inputView = dummyView; // Hide keyboard, but show blinking cursor
return YES;
}

I tested and it is working for me. Hope this will be useful for others who have similar issue.

Upvotes: 3

Paras Joshi
Paras Joshi

Reputation: 20551

so here you just use flag int variable to assign the value to focused textfield

define int i; flag globally in .h or .m file

after that in textField Delegate method use bellow code...

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{

    if (textField == yourtextField1 ) {
        i=1;
    }
    else if (textField == yourtextField2 ) {
        i=2;
    }
    else if (textField == yourtextField3 ) {
        i=3;
    }
    else if (textField == yourtextField4 ) {
        i=4;
    }
    return NO;
}
-(IBAction)yourbutton1_Clicked:(id)sender{
           if( i == 1){
              yourtextField1.text=yourbutton1.titleLabel.text;
          }
          else if ( i == 2){
            yourtextField2.text=yourbutton1.titleLabel.text;
          }
          else if ( i == 3){
            yourtextField3.text=yourbutton1.titleLabel.text;
          }
          else if ( i == 4){
            yourtextField4.text=yourbutton1.titleLabel.text;
          }
          else{
              NSLog(@"Please Click On TextField");//here you can put AlertView Message
          }
}

and so on.......

also you can use common method with sender id of button and also tag......

Upvotes: 0

Saurabh Passolia
Saurabh Passolia

Reputation: 8109

if you just want user to select the textfield to fill and does not want to keyboard to show up then you can do the following:

  • add tag to your textfields
  • change the code to this:
-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField 
{
    selectedTextFieldTag = textField.tag;
    return NO;
}

use selectedTextField value to identify which textfield to fill in your code. return NO will not allow keyboard to appear.

Upvotes: 4

ingh.am
ingh.am

Reputation: 26812

[textField resignFirstResponder]; will not be called because you are returning from the method before it can get called. Does that not fire a warning?

Try returning NO here or if that doesn't work, try disabling user-interaction on the text field:

[myTextField setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];

Upvotes: 1

iArezki
iArezki

Reputation: 1271

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField { 
NSLog(@"BeginEditing");
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;

}

Upvotes: 0

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