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xamarin.iosnumericdismisskeypadresignfirstresponder
user856232
user856232

Reputation: 1113

MonoTouch Dismiss Keyboard (sort of)

I am writing a MonoTouch iOS app. I have read many postings about ResignFirstResponder and I am using that.

My app is a typical table view app. I have done my own custom table cell view. The UITextField controls that cause the numeric keypad to come up in the first place are all on the custom table cell.

Currently I have it so that if you tap on the background of the cell I call ResignFirstResponder on all the text fields. This seems to work, but is not intuitive. I had a new beta tester get it last night and he tapped on one of the text fields and the keypad came up and he was lost as to how to get rid of it. After I told him to just tap the background, he now is fine, but obviously I want a solution that is obvious and doesn't require me to tell everyone how it works.

I read one post about a way to add a DONE button to the keypad, but it looked like a total hack and even broke when 3.2.1 came out and I don't want to have to worry about my app breaking when a new OS comes out.

Suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1255

Answers (1)

jonathanpeppers
jonathanpeppers

Reputation: 26495

I would keep the background click->ResignFirstResponder that you have already, but add to it.

Curious, what button do you have set in the bottom right of the keyboard? There are options to show a Done, Search, Go, Next etc. buttons that can be setup to ResignFirstResponder. Pick the button that makes sense in your situation.

You can hook into the bottom right button by setting a callback to UITextField.ShouldReturn and calling ResignFirstResponder. You can just return false (that return value is for allowing line breaks in your UITextField).

Found an example here of hooking up ShouldReturn.

Upvotes: 1

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