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Abhinav
Abhinav

Reputation: 38142

Restricting copy paste of string in numeric textfield

I have a textbox in which I wanted a user to enter only numbers. I have implemented the number keypad there. But if someone puts my app in the background and copies some character string from some other app and comes back to my app and pastes it, it successfully pastes the string content into my numeric textfield. How can I restrict this scenario?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1821

Answers (2)

Rob Napier
Rob Napier

Reputation: 299265

@theChrisKent is close, but there's a slightly better way. Use the delegate method -textView:shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementText:. Check if replacementText contains any non-numbers, and if so return NO.

Upvotes: 7

theChrisKent
theChrisKent

Reputation: 15099

You can disable pasting altogether by following the top answer on this question: How disable Copy, Cut, Select, Select All in UITextView

Just subclass the UITextView and override this method (code stolen from above question):

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(paste:)
        return NO;
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}

Otherwise you can implement the UITextViewDelegate protocol and implement the textViewDidChange: method and check if it's numeric. If not, undo the changes. Documentation here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UITextViewDelegate_Protocol/Reference/UITextViewDelegate.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/UITextViewDelegate/textViewDidChange:

Upvotes: 0

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