I am thinking of developing a custom keyboard where each key has three distinct button actions:
Single tap
Double tap
Long press
1 and 2 are for directly inputting common characters while 3 will be for a pop menu to select input for less common characters.
I've used UIButton touchUpInside event for single tap and UITapGestureRecognizer for double tap. I can somewhat make it work as separate events on a single button in the Main Storyboard, but it was kind of wonky on the Keyboard Storyboard for the Keyboard View Controller. Double tap on the button doesn't do anything.
Any advice appreciated.
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I have created a custom accessory view to supplement the standard Apple alpha iOS keyboard.
The purpose is to add a line of numeric keys to prevent flipping back and forth between keyboard views. At first, I created a toolbar and loaded it with a set of 0 - 9 titled buttonItems and it functioned quite well. However, it looked terrible, not at all like the alpha keys despite adding a rounded rect background image to each key because the system apparently prevents customizing font size and button spacing inside the stack view of the toolbar. Therefore, I created a UIView xib and loaded it with a stackView full of customized numerical buttons. When I add the UIView as the accessory view it looks pretty darn close to the rest of the Apple Alpha keyboard. The issue now is that the touch-up events go to the UIView class of the accessory view. Is there a clever, efficient way to have the button presses in the accessory emulate the std keyboard feeding into TextField: shouldChangeCharactersIn? I could package the button presses into a local notification event to get it into the class holding the textField but that seems terribly inelegant! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Stay Safe!
Not the best answer, but I did implement notification on key button press with an observer in the main view class. The observer does a TextField.insertText which is suboptimal since I will need to refactor the several hundred lines of code that performs real-time language translation in the shouldChangeCharacters methods. Ah well.
So if any of you have used the tumblr mobile app recently, you'll notice that the reblog function has a tap and hold capability. Essentially when you tap and hold the reblog button, more buttons pop up around it so the user can just drag their finger over one of the new buttons and release to select it. I've been digging around and no one seems to have an answer to this specific question.I've always seen this as a very elegant way to have a sub menu and would like to implement it into my own apps. For ios btw.
Add gesture recognizer to a view. write a method to create buttons when long press gesture is done on the view.
I'm building custom keyboard and i want to make response like stock keyboard.
- I can press and hold on one key and drag to other key and so release, the letter will be enter is the one at current finger position
- Can press and hold one key and use other finger to press on the other key and so 2 letters will be entered at the same time.
I've tried many methods in UIButton ( TouchUpInside, TouchDown, TouchUpOutside ... but didn't successed.
You are going beyond the abilities of UIButton. You need to look at creating a custom view which handles Multitouch Events.
It's not easy, but it's not impossible either.
I am making an iPad app and I have 3 small UIWebViews on the view. I have realized that if there is an HTML input field and I tap on it, Keyboard appears and covers one of the webviews. I can move up the web view but how can I detect which webviews' input field is tapped?
I would say use TapRecognizer active on the whole view. Using tap recognizer, find the location where it is tapped.
Now based on location I believe you can tell which webview is tapped.
Based on which webview is tapped, you can shift view upside.
Hope this will do the trick.
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Dismiss keyboard by touching background of UITableView
How do I make the keyboard go away when the user clicks somewhere else?
Note: I know how to make the keyboard disappear with sending the resignFirstResponder command to the UITextField. At present the "Done" button is connected to all the correct code to do this and this works.
I have a UITableView with different UITableViewCells, and if the user moves onto another cell I want the keyboard to disappear.
So what events do I also need to include the resignFirstResponder in, for the keyboard to disappear.
Suppose UITableViewCell A has the UITextField, and UITableViewCell B has a button. If the user presses the button in cell B, then I will need to send the command resignFirstResponder back to the UITextField in cell A. First of all the button has no idea which cell it should sent the command to, and second even if the button did know which cell to send the command to how would it?
There's no trivial way to do this. You can put a transparent set of "shield views" all the way around the text field that take up the rest of the screen, and use any touches on them to dismiss the keyboard.
You can create a generic 'hideKeyboard' method in which you can include all text fields that can be first responders. For example,
-(void) hideKeyboard {
[textFieldName resignFirstResponder];
[textFieldSurname resignFirstResponder];
for (UITextField * txtField in arrTextFields) {
[txtField resignFirstResponder];
}
}
Then, at various sections in your class, depending on the functionality required, call;
[self hideKeyBoard];
This simple method means you won't need to keep track of the individual item that 'has the focus' / first responder status.
How to touch any part of the screen to make the keyboard go away
To touch somewhere outside the UITableView and have the keyboard disappear, place an invisible button on top of the 'touch area' that you want to respond to. Then, simply call [self hideKeyboard] from the touch event for that invisible button. Using IB, drag a new rounded button onto your view, then size it to take up the full size of the screen. Next,drag the button up or down the controls list in the IB document window so that button is behind all text fields and buttons, but in front of anything else (like images etc.). Finally, change the type of the button to 'Custom' to make it invisible, but still respond to events. Now all you have to do is to connect the new button's 'touch up inside' event to trigger the 'hideKeyboard' method.
Additionally, see this post for a brilliant solution to dismiss the keyboard when the above solution doesn't work : stackoverflow question 1823317