I am new to iPad programming, I want to know how to dismiss the keyboard from UItextview which is defined in UItablecell. I have multiple textviews defined in cell. Kindly help me out with a proper solution or suggestion from your side.
Send the text view the message resignFirstResponder and the keyboard will dismiss. If you need to have it dismiss in response to the return key, look at having your view controller adopt the UITextViewDelegate protocol.
[self.textViewInQuestion resignFirstResponder];
Alternatively, you can send the endEditing: message to the table view like this:
/*
Attempt to resign first responder status on any textfields within
the view's hierarchy.
*/
[self.tableView endEditing:NO];
// OR we can....
/*
Force text fields within the view's hierarchy to resign first responder.
Textfield delegates cannot prevent this from happening so this is not
recommended if you need to perform field validation and prevent the user
from leaving the textfield.
However sometimes it is useful to be able to force the resignation of the
first responder status even with validation so it goes both ways really.
*/
[self.tableView endEditing:YES];
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I know that the view controller must be firstResponder in order for the inputAccessory to stay at the bottom. I am using a custom inputView / keyboard. I can manually dismiss it with a done button by removing the inputView but not resigning first responder. However when I enable the interactive drag to dismiss on my scrollview, the code automatically resigns first responder. So how can I use the interactive drag to dismiss and yet keep my viewcontroller as first responder? Anyone done this before? I thought maybe it is not possible and that I may need to make my own interactive drag to dismiss using a gesture recognizer.
More info:
I have a button that swaps between standard keyboard and my custom one. I have seen dismissing these cause 2 keyboard did dismiss notifications. I thought I could become firstResponder in the keyboardDidHide method but this didn't work well since I couldn't tell the difference between when I manually dismissed the keyboard and when the interactive drag does it. This matters because I don't need to reload the input view or become first responder when I manually dismiss because I took care of it already.
Any suggestions would be amazing. I am trying to use inputView and inputAccessoryView on the UIViewController level.
Well after a day of pulling my hair, I have an answer.
Using the canResignFirstResponder of my viewcontroller did the trick. In viewWillAppear I set a BOOL responderOverride = YES;
In viewWillDisappear I call
responderOverride = NO;
[self resignFirstResponder];
When the interactive drag on the scrollview tries to resignFirstResponder, canResignFirstResponder returns no which prevents my viewcontroller from resigning and keeps my input accessory retained and sitting at the bottom of the screen.
There is a lot of other code with reloading input views but since the real question was how to force a controller to stay first responder so we don't lose our input accessory view, then this solution works.
override var canBecomeFirstResponder : Bool {
get {
retrun true
}
}
This works for me
In my iOS project, I have a form which contains various text fields. Some text fields are edited by keyboard and some by picker view which is placed on the popover.
When I go on filling text fields, without dismissing it and then if I click on popover text field keyboard remains open.
It appears as both keyboard and popover present on screen at the same time, which I don't want.
I am able to get whether the keyboard is opened or not by setting a flag in keyboard notification methods and also the last text field that was edited through text filed delegates. And have tried
[self endEditing: YES]; (as it is in a table cell)
[lastEditedTextField resignFirstResponder];
Even try to pass keyboard dismiss the notification by my self (without knowing whether it is possible or not)
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
but nothing is working.
How can I dismiss keyboard (if already open) whenever popover appears?
You can call:
[self.view endEditing:YES];
But, a better solution is likely to present the picker using the UIResponder
inputView so it automatically replaces the keyboard and you don't need to mediate between 2 different things (and the user doesn't switch between different parts of the screen potentially).
Try to implement textFieldShouldBeginEditing: and inside it check which text field is this. If it is one of the fields that should display a popover, first call [self.view endEditing:YES] to hide the keyboard, then present the popover and return NO. This way the text field won't take first responder status and the keyboard will not appear again. And if it is one of the "normal" text fields, just return YES.
I'm new to iOS development and have recently learned that to make the on screen keyboard disappear we must always call resignFirstResponder on the text view. This causes the text view to relinquish it's first responder status, and hence the keyboard disappears, since there is no need for the text view to respond.
However I also noticed that there's the becomeFirstResponder method to make a view a first responder. However, this method is never called on the text view. So when/how does a textview become first responder when that method is never called?(at least, by me. I'm unsure if it is called elsewhere in the system)
My theory is that is has to already be a first responder before it can resign the first responder status.
firstResponder status is automatically handled for you when a user taps on the text field. So long as user interaction is enabled for the UITextField/UITextView, the keyboard should appear when tapped.
You can monitor for it using the delegate method textViewDidBeginEditiing or, more broadly, by listening for keyboard appearance notifications (UIKeyboardWillShowNotification and UIKeyboardDidShowNotification).
Further, there are ways to dismiss the keyboard without the need of calling the corresponding method resignFirstResponder (such as calling endEditing: on a container view, or setting a scroll view's UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissMode).
Note: In the simulator, it is possible that the keyboard still doesn't appear even if all is correctly working. In that case you just want to make sure keyboard hardware is toggled (CMD+K) for the simulator.
You call becomeFirstResponder yourself if you want to give a UITextField focus and show the keyboard.
This is useful for view controllers that are basically forms. For example, if a user presses a "Sign Up" button, you might push a view controller with a couple of text fields and call becomeFirstResponder on the first one to automatically give it focus and open the keyboard.
I am new to iOS development. I need to make my keyboard appear when I enter the view without pressing anything; for example when I have a view with a textField, when I enter the view, I want the keyboard to appear automatically. How can this be done?
You need to make the textField to become the first responder. Try to call this method in the viewDidAppear method of the view controller that contains the textField.
[textField becomeFirstResponder];
Use [yourTextField becomeFirstResponder] method call in your class's viewDidAppear or viewDidLoad.
I have a ViewController that is just a textfield, a next button, and a back button. I want the text field to always be editable while having the keyboard always present. I also want to customize the keyboard to be my own, but that will come once I figure this part out.
EDIT: The keyboard in my case will only actually be a keypad with 10 digits and a backspace key
What is the best way to go about this? I've been working around with having a UITextField that works with a custom keyboard view, and then make that the first responder when the view loads, but maybe there are better ways.
Thanks in advance!
To make a UITextField always use the keyboard...
In the viewDidAppear or viewWllAppear function do this...
[self.textField becomeFirstResponder];
This will make the keyboard appear and the textField respond to the input.
To dismiss the keyboard you have to run...
[self.textField resignFirstResponder];
As long as you don't run this it will keep keyboard focus.
In the view controller's viewWillAppear: method you can call becomeFirstResponder on the text field. This will make the keyboard appear automatically when the view controller appears. As long as there is no other way to dismiss the keyboard, that is all you need.
Of course on the iPad there is a button on the keyboard to dismiss it. If you want to stop that button from working then implement the following delegate method:
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
return NO;
}
And in case you want to really have your own keyboard. create a view properly sized and beautified ;).. and put in the textFiled's inputView property.
textField.inputView = your custom keyboard view
Cheers.