UITableView resizes when adding element - iphone

Question

I´m working on a IRC client for iPhone and I am having problems with my UITableView.
First I resized the tableview so that a toolbar and the keyboard will fit on the screen as the user is typing a message. Looking like this:
But the problem is that when the user is done typing and wants to send the message (send to stream and add to the tableview) the tableview is resized and the toolbar is put at the bottom but the keyboard remain, I do NOT which the textfield to resign first responder, I want to keep the keyboard and toolbar where its at before and after pressing the send button. Looking like this:
This is some of my code:
-Resizing the windows
// Keyboard will show
- (void)keyboardWillShow {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.tableView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 177)];
}];
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.toolBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 177, 320, 43)];
}];
}
// Keyboard will hide
- (void)keyboardWillHide {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.tableView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 481)];
}];
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.toolBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 393, 320, 43)];
}];
}
-Adding element to the tableview
// Retrieve the sender and the message from the input and add it to the data context
- (void)addMessage:(NSString *) input isSender: (BOOL) sender {
Message *messageToBeAdded = [[Message alloc] init];
[messageToBeAdded setIsSender:sender];
NSArray *arr = [input componentsSeparatedByString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"PRIVMSG %# :",[connection channel]]];
[messageToBeAdded setMessage:[arr objectAtIndex:1]];
arr = [input componentsSeparatedByString:#"!"];
if (sender) {
[messageToBeAdded setSender:[connection nick]];
} else {
NSString *tmp = [arr objectAtIndex:0];
[messageToBeAdded setSender:[tmp substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(1, [tmp length]-1)]];
}
[_messageList addObject:messageToBeAdded];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:[_messageList count]-1 inSection:0];
[self.tableView insertRowsAtIndexPaths:#[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
}
I´ve looked everywhere and I´m certain that it has to do with the add part of the tableview. I would appreciate any help or guidance.
Thank you!
EDIT:
I have just realized that is has to do with the use of a custom cell. I created a new project and tried to simulate what I have done step-by-step. And everything worked fine up too the point where I used a custom cell with an UILabel. The UILabel was connected to the UITableViewCell class with an outlet and this is where the problem occurred.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface CustomCell : UITableViewCell
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *myLabel;
#end
Any thought what could be wrong here?

Answer 1

I am guessing that you have a UITextField in your Toolbar. Try...
[aTextField resignFirstResponder];
... when you handle hitting the the send/return button.

Answer 2

The text field controls the keyboard so resignfirstresponder sends a message to the keyboard to remove itself. Does the band move to the bottom of the screen or is removed after the send button is pressed. Either way do what Michael said to do and once the keyboard disappears you will know what happens to the banner. I hope this helps!

Answer 3

You can use UITextFieldDelegate -
-(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}
Or if you have IBOutlet of textField then in 'Keyboard will hide' call resignFirstResponder
// Keyboard will hide
- (void)keyboardWillHide {
[self.myTextField resignFirstResponder];
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.tableView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 481)];
}];
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
[self.toolBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 393, 320, 43)];
}];
}