Is it known how to get the keypad interface from the Phone and Skype apps? This is distinct from the modal keypad view that appears when a UITextField becomes the first responder.
Is this just a UIView that the developers of Skype laid out themselves in IB, complete with custom graphics to get the square shape of each button? Or is there some standard Cocoa Touch way to do it?
This isn't something that Cocoa Touch provides out of the box, no. I would imagine that the iPhone keypad is a set of UIButton objects arranged like a keypad and using custom graphics to get the visual appearance. This should be fairly easy to do in Interface Builder.
You may be looking for UIKeyboardType in the protocol UITextInputTraits, which is implemented by UITextField etc.. See the documentation at that link.
I was getting confused by your question too. I'm not aware of any but seeing as you would need somewhere to type in anyway wouldn't it be better to make the UITextField active on viewWillAppear and turn off touches on the rest of the view hence showing the keypad like the phone app?
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I have my own custom keyboard in a uiview which i'm adding to the UIWindow in certain situations.
I switch between standard UIKeyboard and my custom keyboard with a button.
Problem: when i have my custom keyboard already shown on screen and i tap the UISearchBar i get the standard UIkeyboard shown above mine.
What I expect is to supress showing of Sandard UIKeyboard when i have my custom one already showing on screen.
I intercept keyboardwillshow event but it seems at this event is too late to do that.
I also tried subclassing UISearchBar and get control over its UITextField to get the Shouldbegintextediting but it doesn't seem to work ... (FYI UISearchBar doesn't have shouldbegintextediting event in the protocol. Its only for uitextfiled).
Also, there is no such thing as 'inputView' property in UISearchBar.
I tested this on iOS 5.1.
Anyone with experience on this kind of issue?
Thank you.
Set the inputView of the search field to your custom keyboard.
In Vb.net we have that sort of thing right.
However, in beginning IPhone development, by David Mark, the way the author implement removing keyboard when a user tap outside the text box is by turning the whole view into a control and then create an IBaction for that view being touch.
Why not the text box touch up outside or touch down outside? Is this the normal way?
Yes it is the normal way of doing out of focus. Or you can implement UITextFieldDelegate metod textFieldShouldReturn. Where you call resignFirstResponder for a particular text field.
How in the world does one get the iPhone view to zoom in on a focused UITextField? I need to tap on a text field that I want to edit, and my view should zoom in to the tapped text field and pull up the keyboard (which it already does), similar to how many Internet text fields gain focus on the iPhone. Is this some type of overlay?
I've been looking everywhere for this solution but maybe I've just got the wrong terminology. Thank you in advance.
Could be a duplicate of this StackOverflow question.
In essence, there are a number of ways, but you have to program this effect manually. A textfield is already an overlay. You can either move it, or scroll the containing view.
Please follow the following steps.
Implement the delegate method for all textfield.connect the outlet of textfield in interface builder basically it's setting the delegate property.then in delegate property you can defined the method whatever you want to implement or wanted to do functionality.
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Anyone has any idea how one can achieve the same look as when you press on the "From:" in the Mail iphone app when you have more than one user account.
I'd like to remove my keyboard, but WITHOUT animating it. Rather just disappear and instead of it have a UIPickerView appear.
Thanks much!
Since iOS 3.2 you can set the inputView property of a UITextField to a custom view. This view is then shown instead of the keyboard as input for that view.
There's no way to achieve this before iOS 3.2 I know.
UITextField Class Reference
It's common to see a UISearchBar in an application, that upon a click, will enlarge and animate into view with a keyboard. I'm curious, is this something the iPhone SDK provides for free, or is the Animation code more than likely written by the developer? I use a UISearchBar in several controllers, however by default a keyboard just pops into view, the search bar does not animate in any fashion. This is also very prominent in apps that have a search icon. How is it typically done?
This can be easily implemented using the UISearchDisplayController using the iPhone SDK 3.0 and above.
See the TableSearch example project, included in the SDK.
There is a discussion "UISearchBar like Contacts" on this at the apple site.
Did you put it in through Interface Builder or programatically? Because by default the keyboard animation should play.