I m developing an application in which i adding one control UISearchBar. When i started editing text in UIsearchBar then keypad is animated on the screen. After i completed my complete editing or canceling all text then i will stuck on point of dismissing keypad.
How i dismiss keyboard on tapping search key form UIKeypad?
Also same question for UITextField and UITextView?
Thanks
Make sure the view controller which has the SearchBar implements the SearchBarDelegate and you set the searchBar.delegate to self:
#interface AddressSearchViewController : UIViewController <UISearchBarDelegate>
then implement the following method:
-(void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
[searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}
This will make the keyboard disappear when you tap the search button on the keyboard or the search bar
For the search bar:
- (void)searchBarTextDidEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
[searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}
And same thing for the text field:
- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}
Use this code in ViewDidLoad
-(void) ViewDidLoad
{
[super ........];
UITapGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(hideKeyboard)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];
gestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
}
- (void) hideKeyboard
{
[texfieldname1 resignFirstResponder];
[texfieldname2 resignFirstResponder];
}
I added a tapgesturerecognizer to my view so when the user hits the search bar, but then decides to not type, the user can tap on the screen behind the keyboard, and the keyboard will disappear. this is my code in viewdidload:
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleTap:)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
[tapGesture release];
Then to handle the tap:
- (void)handleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)gesture {
if (self.searchDisplayController.active == YES) {
[self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO];
}
}
However, now my other buttons like items in the tabbar are not available. Am I missing something else? Thanks!
Try
[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
This will hide the keyboard without deactivating search mode.
I have an application which has a couple of UITextField present to allow my user to enter their age, and another numerical value. Ideally, I want the keyboard to bring up the numeric keypad when the TextField is being edited. At present I have it set to Numer and Punctuation merely to make use of the 'Done' button to dismiss the keyboard as the Numeric pad does not have a done button.
In an attempt to use the Numeric keypad, I have tried to set it to dismiss by tapping the background of my main view.
-(IBAction)backgroundTapped:(id)sender;
I created the above action in my header file.
-(IBAction)backgroundTapped:(id)sender {
[ageEntry resignFirstResponder];
}
I have expanded on the above method in my implementation file to tell the ageEntry TextField to resignFirstResponder. I have also changed my main view to a UIControl class and connected the buttonTapped action to the relevant alert through Interface Builder. Yet when I touch the background nothing happens.
Any ideas?
Just detect the touch in your viewController's view using the method
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[urAgeField resignFirstResponder];
[urOtherField resignFirstResponder];
}
and resign the keyboard in this method
A much easier method is to add a inputAccessoryView to your text field. This input accessory view can be a UIToolbar with a single UITabBarButton for your Done button.
Much less of a hack, and will look like the accessory view that is used in for example Safari to dismiss the keyboard.
i had a similar problem. here is the solution..
EDITED
add
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UITapGestureRecognizer* tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(tap:)];
tap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
[self addGestureRecognizer:tap];
}
- (void) touchesBegan:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event
{
[ageEntry resignFirstResponder];
}
I want to be able to dismiss the iPhone keyboard when the user taps anywhere outside of the keyboard. How can I go about doing this? I know I need to dismiss the responder, but need to know how to implement it when a user taps out of the keyboard space.
You'll need to add an UITapGestureRecogniser and assign it to the view, and then call resign first responder on the textfield on it's selector.
The code:
In viewDidLoad
UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(dismissKeyboard)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
In dismissKeyboard:
-(void)dismissKeyboard {
[aTextField resignFirstResponder];
}
(Where aTextField is the textfield that is responsible for the keyboard)
OPTION 2
If you can't afford to add a gestureRecognizer then you can try this
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
if(touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan) {
[aTextField resignFirstResponder];
}
}
The simplest solution I have used is this:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
The endEditing command can be used on any view that contains your textfield as a subview. The other advantage of this method is that you don't need to know which textfield triggered the keyboard. So even if you have a multiple textfields, just add this line to the superview.
Based on the Apple documentation, I think this method exists specifically to solve this problem.
Add a tapGesture Recognizer but make sure cancelsTouchesInView = NO
UITapGestureRecognizer* tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:#selector(closeTextInput)];
tapGesture.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
[tapGesture release];
You'll need to add an UITapGestureRecogniser and assign it to the view, and then call resign first responder on the textfield on it's selector.
The code:
In viewDidLoad
UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(dismissKeyboard)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
In dismissKeyboard:
-(void)dismissKeyboard {
[self.view endEditing:true];
}
You need to add a transparent UIVIew as a subview below the keyboard and handle touches there, to dismiss the keyboard. Below code is for your reference.
UITapGestureRecognizer* gesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(overlayTouched:)];
gesture.delegate = self;
[(UITapGestureRecognizer *)gesture setNumberOfTouchesRequired:1];
UIView* trans = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[delegate view] bounds]];
[trans setOpaque:NO];
[trans setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin];
[trans setAlpha:0.3];
[trans setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
trans.multipleTouchEnabled = YES;
[trans addGestureRecognizer:gesture];
[trans setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[trans setTag:BLACK_SCREEN_VIEW];
This is a Swift 4 solution:
let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.dismissKeyboard))
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
And the dismissKeyboard
#objc func dismissKeyboard() {
self.view.endEditing(true)
}
Other way to do is simple:
Makes your UIView as UIControl in custom class in the interface builder, then you can attach an IBAction method in Touch up inside event of your UIView : UIControl, then you put [yourTextField resignFirstResponder] inside the IBAction method, like this:
- (IBAction) hideKeyboard: (id) sender
{
// If you have more than one textfield to dismiss, of course only can be active 1, but here you can't know who is it, because sender will be the UIView : UIControl
[alias resignFirstResponder];
[password resignFirstResponder];
}
Then, you have other option and it's to put in your textfield the return key of the keyboard as Done (It can be any of those you want, but Done it's good for this, because return means to do an action with the form) in the interface builder, so you can press Done and hide the keyboard, but in that case you have to attach the previous IBAction method to the Did end on exit event.
And in this way the keyboard will hide touching outside or touching Done from the keyboard.
If you want to improve the code, if only will hide the keyboard touching Done from the keyboard the method should be:
// Attach all textFields here on Did end on exit event, will not work if touch outside the keyboard
- (IBAction) hideKeyboard: (id) sender
{
[sender resignFirstResponder];
}
If you are on a UITableViewController or have a UITableView that the user will be interacting with, in your ViewDidLoad you can simply do:
tableView.KeyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissMode.OnDrag;
Note: this is Xamarin.iOS syntax.
If you don't want to add a gesture recognizer you can also use the touchesBegin method
Code in Swift 4
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
view.endEditing(true)
}
You don't even need a gesture recogniser. Views can detect touches without gesture recognisers. All you need is literally this in your view controller....
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
I have a UITextField that is the subview of UIScrollView
I have there exist a single tap gesture (or perhaps the older touch) as part of UITextField that makes it the first responder. I wanted to add a double tap Gesture to the UITextField. In order to make the two Gesture's mutually exclusive I needed to overload (though this is not quite the right word because I'm not using the same name) the single tap Gesture. When I do it works fine so long as the function that it calls doesn't make the UITextField the first responder. If it does make the textfield the first responder it fails the second time it's called.... wtf. So stack, a little help would go a long way.
this is where I add the gesture
UITapGestureRecognizer * singleTextTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleSingleTextTap:)];
singleTextTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
[aTextField addGestureRecognizer:singleTextTap];
and this is where it is called
//single tap text
- (void) handleSingleTextTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer{
NSLog(#"handling single tap");
NSLog(#"textField gestures %#",
[gestureRecognizer.view.gestureRecognizers descriptionWithLocale:nil]);
[(UITextField *)gestureRecognizer.view becomeFirstResponder];
}
you may notice the NSLog that out puts the gestuers registered to the textField this was to check the state of my singleTextTap gesture. which is 'ended' the first time and all next times this code is never reached
The behaviour you're seeing is due to each time you send a becomeFirstResponder message to a UITextField it sets it's own gesture recognizers up. If you do a log on [textField gestureRecognizers] you'll see it sets up a lot of them. These are to deal with text editing functions such as long press for cursor movement and such. By way of adding these it cancels the ones you have setup. Easiest way to deal with this is something like this.
- (void) singleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)singleTap {
if (![self.textField isFirstResponder]) {
[self.textField becomeFirstResponder];
self.label.text = #"Single Tap -> Make First Responder";
[self.label setNeedsDisplay];
}
}
- (void) doubleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)doubleTap {
if (![self.textField isFirstResponder]) {
[self.textField becomeFirstResponder];
self.label.text = #"Double Tap -> Make First Responder";
[self.label setNeedsDisplay];
}
}
- (void) setupTextGestureRecognizers {
for (UIGestureRecognizer *rec in self.textField.gestureRecognizers) {
[self.textField removeGestureRecognizer:rec];
}
UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(singleTap:)] autorelease];
UITapGestureRecognizer *doubleTap = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(doubleTap:)] autorelease];
[singleTap setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];
[doubleTap setNumberOfTapsRequired:2];
[singleTap setCancelsTouchesInView:YES];
[doubleTap setCancelsTouchesInView:YES];
[singleTap requireGestureRecognizerToFail:doubleTap];
[self.textField addGestureRecognizer:singleTap];
[self.textField addGestureRecognizer:doubleTap];
}
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[self setupTextGestureRecognizers];
self.textField.delegate = self;
}
- (BOOL) textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)tf {
[tf resignFirstResponder];
if (tf == self.textField) {
[self setupTextGestureRecognizers];
}
return YES;
}
Here is an example project demonstrating this code in use.
What you're doing seems really strange, but whatever. I'll assume you know what you're doing.
You might try the following:
UITapGestureRecognizer *doubleTap = ...;
UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = ...;
[singleTap requireGestureRecognizerToFail:doubleTap];
This means that the single tap recognizer will only fire if the double tap one doesn't fire, effectively making them mutually exclusive.