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Bill David
Bill David

Reputation: 95

How to switch keyboard between number+punctuation input view and letter input view with code?

Is it possible to switch between number input view and letters input view of UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable with code? I want to show the number input view by default but allow user to input character as well. I need

Upvotes: 0

Views: 475

Answers (1)

rmaddy
rmaddy

Reputation: 318774

There's no direct way to simulate the pressing of the 123 key on the iPhone keyboard to switch between the numbers/symbols and the letters of the keyboard.

What you can do is switch between two different keyboard types though. Example:

someTextField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable; // start with one type

Then when you want to switch you can do:

- (void)toggleKeyboardType:(UITextField *)textfield {
    if (textfield.keyboardType == UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation) {
        textfield.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable;
    } else {
        textfield.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation;
    }
    [textfield reloadInputViews];
}

Upvotes: 1

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