I checked out iPhone: How can I make a UITextField invisible but still clickable?, but the OP has something else going on and the answers didn't seem to help me out of my fix.
I have a UITextField in which the user has to enter text. Instead of the standard UITextField graphic, I want to use a lovely graphic that's been designed for that purpose. The user would still need to be able to enter text and see the text s/he's entering, but I need the textfield to be invisible so that the graphic can show from underneath it.
How can I do this? Or is there another way to do what I'm after?
Adding my comment as an answer. You can try this,
[textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
And then set the border style as UITextBorderStyleNone.
something like:
yourTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;
should do it
Another solution would be hiding the UITextView itself and just adding a transparent button that will call the keyboard to display.
Otherwise, the other answers should work.
Easiest option is to do it in interface builder. Choose the first uitext field style with no border and that's it.
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I have problem when in iOS settings is enabled this setting "Button Shapes"
It causing this underline in application (first picture with enabled setting, second without)
Any idea how to programatically or in storyboard disable it?
I tried attributed text but I get same result :(
I'm newbie in Swift.
Thanks for help!
It's not a problem. You should not make any attempt to counter any accessibility changes set by the user. They are there for a reason.
This is an answer by user4291543 from this question Remove underline on UIButton in iOS 7
[yourBtnHere setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc] init] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
I found this answer works with SWFrameButton
And for all the others saying "Don't Do This", SWFrameButton is a very good example of when you would want to do this. I also think the OP's situation is a perfectly valid scenario as well...
I totally agree with #maddy's comment:
It's not a problem. You should not make any attempt to counter any accessibility changes set by the user. They are there for a reason.
But I did stumble on a way to accomplish the task at hand...
In addition to a UIButton, you'll also need to make a .png file that contains nothing (meaning the entire contents have an opacity of 0%). Go ahead and load that into your xcode project's assets.
Now go ahead and set the Button's Background to that image you just provided. (In my case, I called it clear) This will remove the underline from the button's text. However, now you can't see the boundaries of the button. This can be solved by changing the Background of the button's View. Go ahead and select any color for the View's Background property and now the background of the View visibly defines the button's boundaries. You're able to see this because your clear.png has an opacity of 0%.
see the Attributes inspector for UIButton here.
Rather than trying to defeat the underline by going to make a label perform some action via UITapGestureRecognizer, this allows you to still use a UIButton. Keeping inline with accessibility features to mark buttons for people that want to do that.
You could create a custom button class with a label (with clear color). If you set the text of this label instead it shouldn`t get an underline.
Are you sure you want to do that?
Apple added an accessibility feature to mark buttons for people that want to do that. Apple will probably reject your app because it defeats a system function meant to help the disabled.
I found the solution. All you have to do is set a picture as the background of the button. just pick a picture with the same color as the button you created.
Im trying to copy the content in a UILabel but without hiding the keyboard, the problem is that when I show the menu of copy in the label the label becomes first responder and the keyboard resign, but I want to do that without hiding the keyboard, is there a way to do that?
It is not possible with UILabel.
You should use UITextField for that. Just disable editing.
AFAIK, you can't do that. But I think you can have a work around for that. Instead of not hiding the keyboard, why don't keep track the current active text field and then active it after user press copy. You can use UIPasteboardChangedNotification to know when user pressed copy. For example:
self.lastActiveTextField = aTextField
-(void)pasteBoardDidChange:(NSNotification*)notif
{
[self.lastActiveTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}
I think so u r looking something like this project.
UILabel with UIKeyInput protocol implementation
https://github.com/hackiftekhar/IQEditableLabel
I think, it is not possible, there can be only one first responder at any time. If the keyboard is shown because of another UI element, then when you try to copy the content from UILabel, the OS has to transfer first responder from other element to UILabel, as there is no need of keyboard for UILabel, the keyboard will hide automatically. So, you have to make changes to your elements to fix this problem or use third party UI elements who can fix your problem.
Every UIView component has a method called: canBecomeFirstResponder. He is read only, but you can subclass the UI object and override the getter:
- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
return false;
}
I didn't do the test, but if the "become first responder" is the problem, that should solve it.
I have a UISearchBar with a dark background color so I was trying to change the place holder text color of UISearchBar (which will be gray by default) but I didn't find a way to set it. So I thought of getting some help :) please suggest me how this can be achieved thanks in advance :)
Note: At the time I wrote this answer I was working on iOS 7 & this workaround worked on iOS 8 as well. It may not work on iOS 9.
Ok it's been two days since I posted this question. Though I din't get the answer I got a workaround for this problem.
Note : I am using storyboard for my application & I have subclassed the UISearchBar and this workaround working like a gem for me.
First and foremost add an appearance proxy to UILabel when its contained in the UISearch bar class like this :
[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];//change the color to whichever color needed
Then the most important thing is If you're using storyboard you must and should write some text in the placeholder field of the attribute inspector like this
If you forget to write something in the placeholder field, definitely this trick will not work when you run the application and the placeholder text will look in usual gray color.
Once you're done with writing some text in placeholder field, set the place holder text in your UISearchBar sub class like this :
self.placeholder = #"My Placeholder text";
Now run the application !!! You'll get the place holder text in the color which you have set in appdelegate:) Hope this helps someone :)
Here is the solution
[searchBar setValue:[UIColor blueColor] forKeyPath:#"_searchField.textColor"];
i am in need to use a text field in my application but the ones provided by XCode are only 1 line long and you can only change the width but not the hight.
I was wondering if its possible to make it look more lines long?
Is it only possible with customization and if yes any good tutorials?
Thank you!
First off, you can actually change the height of a UITextField. Just change the border style in the Attributes Inspector to anything except the default "rounded corners". You can then resize it right in Interface Builder. If you really wanted to, you could even change it back in your viewDidLoad method like this:
self.myTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
However, to have multiple lines, you have to use a UITextView. It's by default multi-line, but see the Apple documentation for more information.
You can use a UITextView. The document about it here. If you need something else, please post an image of what you want to achieve.
How can I implement a multiple line textfield like what I see in the iPhone messaging application. in other words, How to expand the box dynamically when user press return key or when text run to next line.
I notice this question already been asked at:
Objective C: How to create a multi-line UITextField?
and the solution was to use UITextView, however, UITextView doesn't look as deli gent as UITextView because it doesn't show border depth as UITextView.
regards,
You could use UITextView without border and put some UIImageViews above for your own border.
You can find my answer for that here :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/13476467/1572408
hope it help :)