How to disable the keypad on user tap? - iphone

I have a custom view which contains UITextField's.
When user clicks on the text field, numeric KeyPad pops up.
But I need the KeyPad to disappear when "user" clicks anywhere else outside the textField's in the view....
Can anyone help me out...
Thanks in advance.

You could overlay the rest of the view with a transparent view. If a user touches that, you just call resignFirstResponder and hide the transparent view.

got to interface builder and change the class property of the view from uiview to uicontrol and then make a method which includes [object resign firstresponder] .now connect that method to the the view.
like
-(ibaction)remove:(id)sender{
testfield resigh firstresponder;
}

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How do I tell the difference between the user tapping my table view cell and the user tapping a subview contained within the cell?

One of my view controllers contains a UITableView with custom UITableViewCell's. My custom UITableView cell contains a UIImageView subview that represents a tappable icon. When the user taps anywhere on the custom cell, except the icon subview, I want my didSelectRowAtIndexPath method to be called like normal. But when my icon subview gets tapped, I want a different method to get called, but I can't figure out how to do this. Do I have capture the touch position in the touchesDidBegin method and manually check if the user tapped the icon? That just feels so hacky. Other, cleaner ideas?
Thanks so much for your wisdom!
Simply add a tapGestureRecognizer to the UIImageView in your cell

How to make a contact field entry like this on iOS?

I have an application in which when tapping a button it will show a view to the user to enter the contact number of the user, like in the image below. Can anybody help me achieve this? I need my users to chose their country within the flags and corresponding stdcodes needs to be there
What I see in the example: a UIImageView for the country flag, a UILabel for the country code and a UITextField with a placeholder for the phone number. You can set de value for placeholder in IB or programmatically.
You will have to create a custom view for that.
Steps to do it:
Derive a class from UIView.
Add UIImageView, UILabel and UITextField into it.
Layout it properly.
On button click, show this view with proper frames/bounds.
Create a view like whatever you have shown and initially make it hidden, when user click on the button make the view visible.
ON action event add this sub view into your view
In Xib file,click the label and see the right side properties,In that properties you will find the placeholder option.In that placeholder,type the text you want.That text will be appeared as a hint for the user when he taps it.Or otherwise,directly in your code where you declare the label,in that label code
label.placeholder=#"Enter Contact here";

text field need to long press to get touch down action

initially i crate 2 textfields in main view.
And i write IBAction to them and give touch down in interface builder.
But unfortunately i need to place scroll view in view and place these two text fields on scrollview.
in the IBAction i am calling action sheet. before adding scroll view it works fine but after adding scroll view need to long press other wise keypad will raise instead of Action sheet
what the wrong can any one pls help me.
Thank u in advance.
Is it possible to forward the touch the the scroll view? Not sure if it is but just an idea?
Hey try this UITextFieldDelegate method
This will not raise the keypad
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
return NO;
}
Do let me know if ths works

How can I show a UIDatePicker instead of a keyboard when a user selects a UITextField?

I have a nice clean UI within a table view which has a few text fields for the user to fill out. One of the fields is for the user's birthday.
I'd like to have it so that when the user selects the birthday field, a view containing a UIDatePicker would come up as, just like the different keyboards do when selecting a text field.
Can this be done? I would have to prevent the text field from being the first responder (to avoid having the keyboard come up) and I would have to animate the view sliding up if no keyboard was showing before.
Would presenting the view modally be an option? If so how would I go about doing it? From the documentation it seems that modal views still take up the whole screen, I just want to use the lower 216 pixels (height of the keyboard and UIDatePicker).
Any one have any tips on how to go about doing this?
Old question but the correct way to do this these days would be to set the UITextField's inputView to a picker you created somewhere. Something like this:
UIPickerView *myPicker = [[UIPickerView alloc] init];
// set picker frame, options, etc...
// N.B. origin for the picker's frame should be 0,0
[myTextField setInputView:myPicker];
When you go to edit a UITextField, iOS really just displays whatever view is at textField.inputView which by default is the keyboard, you can make it anything you want as long as it's a subclass of UIView.
Regarding animation, take a look at DateCell sample application -
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/DateCell/Introduction/Intro.html
And in any case, the proper way to do this is set UITextField's inputView to show the picker instead of the keyboard. That's what it's meant to do. More on that here:
How can I present a picker view just like the keyboard does?
Cheers,
Oded.
I would implement this by just animating a view containing the UIDatePicker, a Done, and Cancel button) up from the bottom of the screen. Using CoreAnimation, this should be pretty easy.
Why are you using a text field if you don't want to accept user input from a keyboard? Instead use a UILabel subclass (where you override the touchesBegan/Ended:withEvent: set of methods to show the UIDatePicker) or a UIButton (where your action is a method which slides up the UIDatePicker).

UITableView with TextField and moving the view when keypad comes up

I have a UITableView that contains text field in each row. The text field is allowed to take only numbers and decimals. I have a transparent background button to help users click on the view to dispose the keypad when it is up. The text fields at the bottom of the view are getting covered by the keypad, so I wanted to move the view by capturing the textDidBeginEditing method etc and animating the view upward. The problem I notice is that after this code to move the view was added, if the numeric keypad is up and if I click on the view outside the keypad to dispose it, the background button does not receive the event so the keypad is not disposed. Can this be fixed? Thanks
I think the problem is the button does not cover the entire view. For your convenience you can make the button non-transparent and have some image on it to see its size.
Confirm the button is on the top of the view layer order.
Also confirm the button is there on the view after the view animation.