Is there a way to stop the cursor from blinking in a UITextField? I know you can use [UITextField resignFirstResponder] and [UITextField setEnabled:NO], but I'd like to keep the keyboard visible on the screen.
Thanks!
Update
To clarify, I have no intention of hiding the cursor while the user is editing the text field, but I want to hide it after the user has hit Done and a progress indicator has appeared above the text field. A blinking cursor seems weird in a view that can't be manipulated with.
You can create an invisible text field and make it the first responder. Once you're done, you can set the first responder back to the original text field and remove the invisible text field.
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I have a custom framework for UITextField. For now, I want to disable two attribute as the question above but still keep the cursor show in my custom textfield. I already disable the keyboard with set the inputView = UIView(), and that successful for hide the keyboard even show the cursor inside textField.
My goal is disable both attributes like above or another for can not Select All action from my textField, but still keep the cursor available anytime.
Hope to hear the ideas from you guys. Thank a lot!
I'm working on an App with Objective-C but I have a problem with my form.
I have several inputs view (UITextField) on it, and one with a particularly behavior.
When I select the checkbox, I prevent the user typing on the view and looks the view as disable( grayed out and without the blue bar flashing blue bar ) and keep the keyboard open.
When I set the UITextField as disable, the keyboard is automatically hidden.
Someone knows how to keep the keyboard open?
I need to something like the image attached, but without the blue bar flashing blue bar.
I did the logic to prevent the the user enter data on the input , but the keyboard is automatically hidden.
If the text field is disabled, the user cannot type into it and the dismissal of the keyboard is correct. You should not try to fight against that. (It sounds like you're trying to disable the keyboard for the wrong reasons anyway.)
In this case, it sounds like your timing is just off. When the user clicks the checkbox, your code responds. What you are doing there is just wrong. You should respond by moving the first responder to the next enabled text field yourself, and then disabling the first text field. That way, you are not disabling the text field while it is first responder; that's your whole mistake right there.
I am working on a ToDo list app wherein I keep the focus on the textbox input after the user adds a ToDo item.
Now, the problem is, when the user adds some text input and hits the add button, the focus on the textbox is lost so the keyboard disappears and then the focus gets back to the textbox. So, the keyboard disappears and appears again in a short interval. As you can imagine, this is bad UX.
How do I set the keyboard to be shown explicitly when the focus is on the input button?
I fixed it by setting the focus onto the textbox first when I click the add button then do the actual adding stuff.
I am writing an iPhone app with a keypad and two TextFields on a single view. The user types into each of the text fields. Because I want to use an on-screen keypad, I disabled the the keyboard from launching when each TextField is selected. (I used the method suggested in this thread:
Disable UITextField keyboard?
So far so good EXCEPT the cursor doesn't blink in the either of the two TextFields until they are selected. If I just begin typing without selecting, the first textfield is filled. That's OK, but I would like to set the cursor flashing in that field so the user is notified that that is where the input will go unless they select the other field.
I did not create the text fields programatically. I created them with Interface builder.
How do I programatically select the desired starting text field (ideally some highlight would show up when selected). Right now I just got lucky and the field I want to be the default is the default.
How do I place the flashing cursor onto the right side of that text field.
...Dale
Call [myTextField becomeFirstResponder]; this will notify the receiver that it is about to become first responder in its window. That should set the Cursor in the UITextField.
To programmatically activate a field and make it your starting text field you should use UIResponder's becomeFirstResponder method, which all UITextFields inherit from.
[textField becomeFirstResponder];
After I use my textfield I can't get a jpanel that click on back into focus for my keylistener. It works for the mouselistener but all other keystrokes keep being detected by the textfield not the jpanel.
The panel has been setFocusable(true) and works fine until i give the textfield the keyboard focus. It's like the textfield won't release the focus.
Any suggestions?
The answer was to call requestFocus() on the panel after the text action was performed