I want to remove the border of UITextField dynamically.
I tried [stringTextField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone];
but nothing happened. Any idea?
Is the TextField already displayed in the view when this happens? If so, you (probably) need to execute the following:
[stringTextField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone];
[stringTextField setNeedsDisplay];
in order for the view to redraw the TextField, sans border. Note that there's no guarantee the system will immediately redraw the textField. You're indicating to the system that you'd like the field to be redrawn.
With an existing UITextField I found that this worked:
[textField setEnabled:NO];
[textField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone];
while this did not (the border remained in the view):
[textField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone];
[textField setEnabled:NO];
Try this ones.
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;
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I have a UITextField which I can click on, and edit the contents of. I am running code when the UITextField is pressed by using:
[personalCountryLabel addTarget:self action:#selector(countryPressed) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingDidBegin];
This presents another view controller. However, when I click the back button, the UITextField is still selected, so the text runs again, sending me back to the view controller.
I use the code:
textField.enabled = false;
and
textField.enabled = true;
to respectively turn off and on the editing of the UITextField, but doing this in succession does not unselect the UITextField.
How can I therefore programmatically deselect the UITextField (i.e, where the line cursor is no longer blinking).
If I understand what you're asking correctly, you just want:
[textField resignFirstResponder];
/* Programmatically deselect the Uitextfiels below this Code */
UITextField *txtDeselect = [[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.view.frame.origin.x+20, self.view.frame.origin.y+20, self.view.frame.size.width-40, 40)];
[txtDeselect setBackgroundColor:[UIColor yellowColor]];
[txtDeselect setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect];
[txtDeselect setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
[txtDeselect setText:#"Email"];
txtDeselect.enabled = NO;
[self.view addSubview:txtDeselect];
did you set outlet & delegate of UITextField in your view controller ?
why you use UItextfield for this ?
i recommend you use one of this before presenting new view controller :
option 1 :
[youtextfield resignFirstResponder];
//please sure you outlet connected & ....
you can call this on your viewWillAppear
option 2 :
[self.view endEditing:YES]; // this regularly
happend after present another VC)
you shouldn't use shouldEndEditing
I was wondering how to display a default prompt in a UITextView. If I wanted the user to type a description in a text view, the UITextView could have "description" printed in it, and when the user starts to type, it disappears.
For UITextField, there is the placeholderText property, which will display a grayed out text that is removed once the user starts typing.
For UITextView, you can use a custom implementation, such as SZTextView, which implements a similar functionality of a placeholder text.
It wont be a wise idea to use a third party uitextview for placeholder property.
Follow these steps and you will achieve what you need-
set- textview.textcolor=[uicolor greycolor];
textview.text=#"Your initial placeholder text";
Now in -textViewShouldBeginEditing write these lines of codes-
if(textview.color==[uicolor greycolor]){
textview.color=[uicolor blackcolor];
textview.text=#"";
}
Cheers.
The below solution from #svmrajesh isn't complete. You still need to implement an auto-delete functionality so the default text deletes as soon as the user selects the textView.
In my implementation I set the text in the UITextView to lightGrayColor initially so that it looks like default text
[textView setTextColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]];
Then in the header file I implement the UITextViewDelegate.
#interface YourViewController <UITextViewDelegate>
Then I set the UITextView delegate to self.
[textView setDelegate:self];
Then simply I implement the following delegate method which is fired when the user selects the textView to start typing in their text. The first thing it does is to check if the text color is still set to lightGray.
If it is then the default text is still being displayed, so it is deleted and the textColor is set to black. This simple solution works well for me.
-(void)textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView
{
if(textView.textColor == [UIColor lightGrayColor])
{
textView.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
textView.text = #"";
}
}
Try this....
For UITextView :
UITextView *myUITextView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
myUITextView.delegate = self;
myUITextView.text = #"placeholder text here...";
For UITextField :
UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 150, 200)];
textField.placeholderText = #"Enter your text here";
[self.view addSubview textField];
I have a view called songInfoView with 3 UITextFields and a UIButton. I create a temp UITextField in the parent view to bring up the keyboard and assign songInfoView as the inputAccessoryView. This works as expected.
Then, I try to set a text field in songInfoView as first responder. The cursor moves to this field, but when I try to type, nothing happens. I can tap on the text field and type as expected, but I want it to work without having to tap on it. Am I missing something? Am I doing this out of order? Thanks for your help.
songInfoView = [[SongInfoViewController alloc]init];
songInfoView.delegate = self;
UITextField *tempTextField = [[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0f, 10.0f, 50.0f, 30.0f)];
[self.view addSubview:tempTextField];
[tempTextField setInputAccessoryView:songInfoView.view];
[tempTextField becomeFirstResponder];
[songInfoView.titleTextField becomeFirstResponder];
Well, I figured it out myself. It turns out (I think) that the on screen keyboard (along with it's accessory view) has it's own window. So, within songInfoView's viewDidAppear method, I had to call
[self.view.window makeKeyAndVisible];
Just remember to call this again within the view controller you used to load the keyboard after the keyboard disappears. Hope this helps someone else down the road.
what i am trying to do is do a custom clear button in a UITextField, currently i have got everything working except for the last part. Which is getting it to preform the clear action. However, i have not been able to work out how i can get it to clear, just the textField it is in.
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField setTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.56f green:0.56f blue:0.56f alpha:1.00f]];
[textField setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14]];
textField.background = [UIImage imageNamed:#"whiteCell"];
UIButton *btnColor = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[btnColor addTarget:self action:#selector(clearText:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
btnColor.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 25, 25);
[btnColor setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"clearBut"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
textField.rightView = btnColor;
textField.rightViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
[textField addSubview:btnColor];
return YES;
}
This is how i've created the button in the textField, and for it to only show when editing, as you can see i have it calling clearText however i'm unsure how i can send the current textField name i am in to be cleared in the clearText call.
I know I can do it the hard way, and define it individually for each of my textFields, but i'm sure there is an easier way to go about this, that i just haven't realized.
I suggest subclassing UITextField. This will not allow you to lay out the button in a Storyboard, but in Code or as a .nib file should work. Of course you can use the UITextfield subclass in a storyboard.
Inside the subclass add a UIButton as a subview and in its action method call:
self.text = #""
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Given that your button has been added to the text field as a sub-view you can get to the text field in the buttons superview property:
- (void) clearText:(UIButton*)sender
{
UITextField* textField = (UITextField*)sender.superview;
textField.text = nil;
}
I want to highlight a uitextfield when a user is editing it, so I set my textfield's borderstyle default to UITextBorderStyleNone and use the uitextfields delegates as following:
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleBezel];
}
- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone];
}
The Bezel style gets set and rendered, but when the endediting is called, the none style is not applied.
I tried changing the none to another (say rounded rect), but that one does render properly.
Does anybody know how I can get this to work?
Yes, it is a bug. Anyway, I've solved by using this code:
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleLine;
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;
This isn't a very beautiful method, but it does the work until Apple fixes this issue.
I had this issue also. From my testing it looked as if I could set it to any style other than UITextBorderStyleNone.
A workaround that worked for me at least was disabling and re-enabling the textfield as seen below:
- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
textField.enabled = NO;
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;
textField.enabled = YES;
}
I don't really like it but it works for now.