I have a custom look designed for my textfields on iphone. I decided to create a class
MYTextField : UIView <UITextFieldDelegate>
I have a method
- (id)initWithPlaceholder:(NSString*)placeholder position:(CGPoint) position
that creates a UITextField with the desired view and look.
The sourcecode is as follows:
- (id)initWithPlaceholder:(NSString*)placeholder position:(CGPoint) position {
if (self = [super initWithFrame:CGRectMake(position.x, position.y, TEXTFIELD_WIDTH, TEXTFIELD_HEIGHT)]) {
UITextField *textField = [[[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 200, 300, 40)] autorelease];
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
textField.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:15];
textField.placeholder = #"enter text";
textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
textField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
textField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
[textField setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
textField.delegate = self;
[self addSubview:textField];
}
return self;
}
The problem is that, on invoking the method, the UITextField is visible but on tapping on the textfield, the keyboard doesnt show up.
Is there anything I am missing?
PS: I found a couple of similar problems on Stackoverflow, but none of the solutions seem to work for me. :(
The issue here could be that the textfields frame doesn't lie within the frame of the UIView. Why use TEXTFIELD_WIDTH for the self.frame but not for textfield.frame?
Also, why subclass UIView rather that UITextField?
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I have a UITextView for adding comments to an article. Below this UITextView is a UIButton named 'Add Another Comment'. On Clicking this UIButton, another UITextView must be created such that the old UITextView gets pushed below the new one. I must be able to do this how many ever times i want.
EDIT: my problem is not creating the UITextView but pushing the old textview below the new one. This is how it should be:
a) Before opening up the comments section
b) After opening up the comments section
Hi John yes you can create uitextfield after clicking the button for that you have to write code as such below
- (IBAction)addText:(id)sender
{
CGRect textfieldFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 30.0);
UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:textfieldFrame];
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
textField.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:15];
textField.placeholder = #"enter text";
textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
textField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
textField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
textField.delegate = self;
[self.view addSubview:textField];
}
this link also use full for the reference
just change the y position of the old textview in animation block
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
// set center = btn.y+btn height+0.5*tetview height + any space below button if you want
}];
I have few doubts
Are using scroll view ? how user will see previous comments ? also what if the text height is larger than the height of textview ?
I'm currently loading a -UITextField programmatically and trying to make the keyboard go down once I click on 'Search'.
I declare the -UITextFeild inside the .m file as
UITextField *searchTextField;
Inside the .h file I do indeed declare the -UITextField's delegate
#interface firstChannel : UIViewController<LBYouTubePlayerControllerDelegate, UITableViewDelegate,UITableViewDataSource, NSXMLParserDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate, AVPlayerItemOutputPullDelegate>{
This is how I add the UITextField programmatically.
searchTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, -26, 300, 30)];
searchTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
searchTextField.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Heiti TC" size:13];
searchTextField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
searchTextField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
searchTextField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
searchTextField.placeholder = #"Search on the Channel";
searchTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;;
searchTextField.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
searchTextField.center = CGPointMake(160, 43);
searchTextField.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(232.0/255.0) green:(232.0/255.0) blue:(232.0/255.0) alpha:(100.0/100.0)];
searchTextField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeNever;
searchTextField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeySearch;
[searchTextField setKeyboardAppearance:UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert];
[self.view.window addSubview:searchTextField];
[searchTextField becomeFirstResponder];
I added the delegate inside -viewDidLoad
searchTextField.delegate = self;
However when I click on "Search" on the keyboard nothing happens. I'm unsure why that's happening I've even debugged it by logging something once you hit returns but nothing happens.
Call the searchTExtField.delegate after you create and setup the text field.
Try moving all the code in viewDidLoad
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad]; searchTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, -26, 300, 30)];
searchTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
searchTextField.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Heiti TC" size:13];
searchTextField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
searchTextField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
searchTextField.delegate = self;
searchTextField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
searchTextField.placeholder = #"Search on the Channel";
searchTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;;
searchTextField.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
searchTextField.center = CGPointMake(160, 43);
searchTextField.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(232.0/255.0) green:(232.0/255.0) blue:(232.0/255.0) alpha:(100.0/100.0)];
searchTextField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeNever;
searchTextField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeySearch;
[searchTextField setKeyboardAppearance:UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert];
[self.view.window addSubview:searchTextField];
[searchTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}
Also, if you are using search bar then you need to use search bar delegate. If you are just using UITextfield, then you should be okay.
Have you implemented the delegate method (this method gets called when the user taps the return key):
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
//Perform search with text:
[self performSearch:[textField text]];
return NO;
}
This will resign the responder. Here you can also call your search method.
I create programmatically 12 textfields using one method and I add a tag to each.
Below is the method that creates the textfields, this is called 12 times to create each of the textfields. This works.
textField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, w, h)];
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
textField.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:15];
textField.placeholder = name;
[textField setTag:tag];
textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
textField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
textField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
[self.view addSubview:textField];
My question is how do I set the text in each textfield or how do I access it using the tags.
I tried:
[textField.2 setText: [NSString stringWithFormat : #"HEY"]];
and that does not work.
[(UITextField *)[self.view viewWithTag:2] setText:#"foobar"];
It's often a better idea to create an NSArray property that contains the text fields though.
I have a tableview controlled by a UITableViewController.
In this UITableViewController class I have added a UITextField programmatically to my UINavigationItem by adding these lines to my viewDidLoad method :
CGRect passwordTextFieldFrame = CGRectMake(20.0f, 100.0f, 280.0f, 31.0f);
UITextField *passwordTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:passwordTextFieldFrame];
passwordTextField.placeholder = #"Password";
passwordTextField.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
passwordTextField.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
passwordTextField.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0f];
passwordTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
passwordTextField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
passwordTextField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
passwordTextField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
passwordTextField.tag = 2;
passwordTextField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;
passwordTextField.delegate = self; // ADD THIS LINE
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:passwordTextField];
The UITextField is displayed correctly on my navigationbar but when I click it the textFieldDidBeginEditing never fires.
I have added the to my header file along with the textFieldDidBeginEditing method.
I tried doing the exact same thing in a view controlled by UIViewController and here the textFieldDidBeginEditing gets fired when I click the "textfield" - So I suspect the fact that I am adding the textfield to a UITableViewController is what's causing trouble.
You might think - why didn't you add a "uinavigationbutton" to the "NavigationBar" instead - but I can't as the uidropdownmenu that I want to call when the button is being clicked only accepts a "UITextField".
Try adding one more line:
[passwordTextField becomeFirstResponder];
I have an UITextField in an UITableViewCell.
For some reason the clear button isn't align to the textField's text.
Here's my textField code:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
usernameField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(22, 10, cell.contentView.frame.size.width, cell.contentView.frame.size.height)];
usernameField.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
usernameField.placeholder = #"Username";
usernameField.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
usernameField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
usernameField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
usernameField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
usernameField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyNext;
usernameField.delegate = self;
usernameField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
[usernameField setEnabled:YES];
[cell addSubview:usernameField];
[usernameField becomeFirstResponder];
[usernameField release];
And here's the picture to demonstrate the problem:
Edit:
I also tried with - (CGRect)clearButtonRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds and still nothing
What is your contentVerticalAlignment property? I've seen this issue show up when the clear button is center aligned but the text is aligned the top. Try setting your textfield alignment to the following:
usernameField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
Any luck with that?