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Aarti Oza
Aarti Oza

Reputation: 1154

How to set custom cursor position of UITextField?

When user clicks on UITextFiled the cursor is at starting point, for design purpose its not look good. So, I want to change postion of cursor +5 or from center of UITextField.

I had implemented this code found from Github, Stil its not working. Please help me if you can guide me how to solve this problem.

My code is below

#import "UITextField+Selection.h"

@implementation UITextField (Selection)

- (NSRange)selectedRange
{
    UITextPosition* beginning = self.beginningOfDocument;
    UITextRange* selectedRange = self.selectedTextRange;
    UITextPosition* selectionStart = selectedRange.start;
    UITextPosition* selectionEnd = selectedRange.end;
    NSInteger location = [self offsetFromPosition:beginning toPosition:selectionStart];
    NSInteger length = [self offsetFromPosition:selectionStart toPosition:selectionEnd];
    return NSMakeRange(location, length);
}
- (void)setSelectedRange:(NSRange)range
{
    UITextPosition* beginning = self.beginningOfDocument;
    UITextPosition* startPosition = [self positionFromPosition:beginning offset:range.location];
    UITextPosition* endPosition = [self positionFromPosition:beginning offset:range.location + range.length];
    UITextRange* selectionRange = [self textRangeFromPosition:startPosition toPosition:endPosition];
    [self setSelectedTextRange:selectionRange];
}

#import "UITextField+Selection.h"

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

   [self.nameTextField setSelectedRange:NSMakeRange(5,0)]; // Category method called
}
@end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1761

Answers (3)

Dharani
Dharani

Reputation: 88

For designing purpose, You can put Image behind UITextview, and put textview above UIImage view. It will look good for design

Upvotes: -1

Aleksander Grzyb
Aleksander Grzyb

Reputation: 789

If you want to have custom position of cursor when user selects UITextField you need to register for notification that is posted when user selects UITextField.

So you can add yourself as observer (for example in viewDidLoad method) via:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(textFieldSelected) name:UITextFieldTextDidBeginEditingNotification object:nil];

And then in textFieldSelected method you can:

- (void)textFieldSelected {
    [self.nameTextField setSelectedRange:NSMakeRange(5,0)];
}

Upvotes: 1

chamoda
chamoda

Reputation: 591

Instead of moving the cursor you can add padding to the left of the UITextFiled like this for design to look better

UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 10, 20)];
textField.leftView = paddingView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

Upvotes: 2

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