UITextView make keyboard permanent? - ios

Question

I have two UITextViews in one UI, One of the UITextView is the first responder. The other UITextView is non-editable. When I double tap the non-editable UITextView, the keyboard disappears and I want to avoid this. They keyboard should always stay.

Answer 1

If you double tap on a text view, it shows UIMenuController with Cut, Copy, etc options.
So to achieve your requirement, set User Interaction property to NO (False).
Hope this is what you are looking for.
-Mrunal

Answer 2

Make your viewController the delegate of the textView and return NO from the UITextViewDelegate method textViewShouldEndEditing:
- (BOOL)textViewShouldEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
if (textView == self.editableTextView) {
return NO;
}
return YES;
}

Answer 3

this is not default behavior. to achieve your requirement try this using delagate method shouldChangeTextInRange and make your textview editable
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//nonEditingTextView.editable = NO;
//make the nonEditingTextView editable
}
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text
{
if ( textView == nonEditingTextView ) {
return NO;
}
return YES;
}

Answer 4

//Firstly add the below code for keyboard notification into your viewdidload method.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keybordWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keybordWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
//Let the two textview's names be, NonEditable and Editable
//declare a flag globally
bool Appearflag;
//Then implement the two methods as follows
-(void)keybordWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification
{
if ([NonEditable isFirstResponder] && Appearflag)
{
[Editable becomeFirstResponder];
}else if ([Editable isFirstResponder])
{
Appearflag = NO;
}
}
-(void)keybordWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{
if ([Editable isFirstResponder])
{
Appearflag = YES;
}
}