UItextfield text covers the clear button in the textfield in Swift - swift

Question

Hello, I'm working on a UITextField now and as the image above shows, the text covers the clear button and I want to fix that.
In this text field, I added a padding on the left side of the text and the right side of the clear button.
class testTextField: UITextField {
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
commonInit()
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
func commonInit() {
let leftPadding = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 17, height: 0))
leftPadding.backgroundColor = .clear
self.leftView = leftPadding
self.leftViewMode = .always
// tried adding padding to the rightView, but it hide the clear button
// let rightPadding = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 1, height: 0))
// rightPadding.backgroundColor = .red
// self.rightView = rightPadding
// self.rightViewMode = .always
self.backgroundColor = .white
self.borderStyle = .none
self.layer.cornerRadius = 12
self.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
self.textColor = .black
self.clearButtonMode = .whileEditing
self.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
}
override func clearButtonRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
let originalRect = super.clearButtonRect(forBounds: bounds)
return originalRect.offsetBy(dx: -22, dy: 0)
}
// also tried changing the width of the textRext, but after I implement the following code, the textfield becomes non-clickable...
// override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
// self.bounds.size.width = bounds.size.width - 20.0;
// return bounds;
// }
// override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
// self.bounds.size.width = bounds.size.width - 20.0;
// return bounds;
// }
}
After doing some research(like this), as I put some comments in the code, I tried adding padding to rightView and changing the textRect, but none of them worked.
I want to keep the clear button where it is now, but I want some space on the left side of the clear button, something like the image below...

Answer 1

Thanks to #Shadowrun, I was able to solve the issue I had.
I needed to subclass the UITextField and add editingRect. Then return the CGRect with whatever numbers I want to put. My code is something like this.
override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
return CGRect(x: 17, y: 0, width: bounds.size.width - 70, height: bounds.size.height)
}