Undock Keyboard Programmatically? - ios

Question

I suppose that it is not possible for us to programmatically undock the virtual keyboard. If possible, of course, I would like to know how. I also suppose that it is not possible for us to turn the Split Keyboard switch (General > Keyboard) on programmatically.
Anyway, my situation is the following. I have a tableview control at the top and a textview control right below it with a toolbar control at the bottom. The textview control is editable. So if a user touches it, the virtual keyboard will open, covering the bottom toolbar control. And this keyboard will cover the buttons on the toolbar control. What can I do so that a user can have access to these buttons? I do have a notification ready with UIKeyboardDidShowNotification and UIKeyboardWillHideNotification so that I can tell when a user touches the textview control. Place the toolbar control somewhere else other than at the very bottom? I hope I don't have to do that. Maybe, move the entire view way up while the keyboard is up? I think I can do that.
Thank you for your advice.

Answer 1

I've just decided to move the entire frame upwards when the virtual keyboard is open. It doesn't look bad.
- (void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
// NSLog(#"It's appeared.");
keyboardup = true;
[self.view setFrame:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.origin.x,self.view.frame.origin.y-300,self.view.frame.size.width,self.view.frame.size.height)];
}
- (void)keyboardWillBeHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
// NSLog(#"It's gone");
keyboardup = false;
[self.view setFrame:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.origin.x,self.view.frame.origin.y+300,self.view.frame.size.width,self.view.frame.size.height)];
}
- (void)keyboardCallingNotifications {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(keyboardWasShown:)
name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(keyboardWillBeHidden:)
name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}