Disable keyboard on UITextField on edit - iphone

Question

Since when I click the UITextField the date picker is showing along with the keyboard, I want to hide the key board operation on dob-text field?Here my code
- (void)removeViews:(id)object
{
[[self.view viewWithTag:9] removeFromSuperview];
[[self.view viewWithTag:10] removeFromSuperview];
[[self.view viewWithTag:11] removeFromSuperview];
}
- (void)dismissDatePicker:(id)sender
{
CGRect toolbarTargetFrame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height, 320, 44);
CGRect datePickerTargetFrame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height+44, 320, 216);
[UIView beginAnimations:#"MoveOut" context:nil];
[self.view viewWithTag:9].alpha = 0;
[self.view viewWithTag:10].frame = datePickerTargetFrame;
[self.view viewWithTag:11].frame = toolbarTargetFrame;
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:#selector(removeViews:)];
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
- (IBAction)but
{
//[eventText resignFirstResponder];
[dob resignFirstResponder];
if ([self.view viewWithTag:9])
{
return;
}
CGRect toolbarTargetFrame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height-216-44, 320, 44);
CGRect datePickerTargetFrame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height-216, 320, 216);
UIView *darkView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds ];
darkView.alpha = 0;
darkView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
darkView.tag = 9;
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(dismissDatePicker:)] ;
[darkView addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
[self.view addSubview:darkView];
datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height+44, 320, 216)] ;
datePicker.datePickerMode=UIDatePickerModeDate;
datePicker.tag = 10;
[datePicker addTarget:self action:#selector(changeDate:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
[self.view addSubview:datePicker];
UIToolbar *toolBar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height, 320, 44)] ;
toolBar.tag = 11;
toolBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;
UIBarButtonItem *spacer = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil] ;
UIBarButtonItem *doneButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(dismissDatePicker:)] ;
[toolBar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:spacer, doneButton, nil]];
[self.view addSubview:toolBar];
[UIView beginAnimations:#"MoveIn" context:nil];
toolBar.frame = toolbarTargetFrame;
datePicker.frame = datePickerTargetFrame;
darkView.alpha = 0.5;
[UIView commitAnimations];
//[datePicker addTarget:self action:#selector(dateText:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
//NSDateFormatter *_dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
//_dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterFullStyle;
//dateText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",
// [_dateFormatter stringFromDate:datePicker.date]];
//[self.tableview reloadData];
}
I added the resignfirstresponder also,since its showing the same error
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
return [textField resignFirstResponder];
return [txt1 resignFirstResponder];//dob textfield
}

Answer 1

Use UITextField's delegate method
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
if(textField == dob-text )
//load picker here
return NO; //hide keyboard
else
return YES; //show keyboard
}

Answer 2

A better solution is to set the UIPickerView as the inputView for the UITextField.
And you can set the UIToolBar as the inputAccessoryView of the inputView.
This way iOS will handle the displaying of all UIPickView.
Just set the properties top the correct views:
self.dateTextField.inputView = self.datePicker;
self.dateTextField.inputAccessoryView = self.inputToolbar;
On another note, getting views with viewWithTag: methods means that the you are looping thru all the views. Why not create properties for these views. It will be less messy and might be faster.

Answer 3

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
datePicker.hidden = NO;
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}

Answer 4

try in textFieldDidBeginEditing
-(void) textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}

Answer 5

First of all a textfield should not have a popover - neither picker nor popover nor anything
Best solution would be to put a button - type custom - set image like a date selector image and add selector - in that case you would n't have any issues w.r.t textfields popover and the look would be good as well and you can customize it as per your requirement.