UITextView and UIPickerView with its own UIToolbar - iphone

Question

I like to replicate the form behavior of Safari on the iPhone in my own app. If you enter data in an web form you get a separate UIToolbar (previous, next, done) just above the UIKeyboardView. Same for choosing an option: you get the same UIToolbar just above an UIPickerView.
I am looking for demos / sourcode / ideas how to implement this. Would I create my own subview with that toolbar and textview / pickerview? Is there a more elegant way? Especially something that leverages becomeFirstResponder of UITextfield?

Answer 1

So i created a UIViewCOntroller subclass to manage this.
on that i wrote this function to add.
-(void) addToViewWithAnimation:(UIView *) theView
{
UIView* myview = self.view;
CGRect frame = myview.frame;
frame.origin.y = 420;
myview.frame = frame;
UIView* bgView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 420)];
bgView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
bgView.alpha = 0.6;
backgroundView = bgView;
[theView addSubview: bgView]; // this adds in the dark background
[theView addSubview:self.view]; // this adds in the pickerView with toolbar.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
frame = myview.frame;
frame.origin.y = 420 - frame.size.height;
myview.frame = frame;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
I then created the view in IB, here is what my class Header looked like at the end of that. (there is also a UItoolbar on the view i just do not have a reference to it in my Controller)
#interface PropertyPickerController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIPickerView* Picker;
IBOutlet UIButton* DoneButton;
IBOutlet UIButton* CancelButton;
UIView* backgroundView;
NSArray* SimpleObjects;
id PickerObjectDelegate;
SEL PickerObjectSelector;
}
To then hide the view i use.
-(void) removeFromSuperviewWithAnimation
{
UIView* myview = self.view;
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:#selector(AnimationDidStop:)];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
// set fram below window.
CGRect frame = myview.frame;
frame.origin.y = 420;
myview.frame = frame;
backgroundView.alpha = 0; //fades shade to nothing
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
-(void) AnimationDidStop:(id) object
{
[self.view removeFromSuperview]; //removes view after animations.
[backgroundView removeFromSuperview];
}
And last but not least all the delegate functions for the picker.
- (NSString *)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView titleForRow:(NSInteger)row forComponent:(NSInteger)component
{
FBSimpleObject* object = (FBSimpleObject*)[SimpleObjects objectAtIndex:row];
return object.Name;
}
- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow:(NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component
{
}
- (NSInteger)numberOfComponentsInPickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView
{ return 1;}
- (NSInteger)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView numberOfRowsInComponent:(NSInteger)component
{
return [SimpleObjects count];
}
- (IBAction)CancelButtonClick
{
[self removeFromSuperviewWithAnimation];
}
- (IBAction)DoneButtonClick
{
//This performs a selector when the done button is clicked, makes the controller more versatile.
if(PickerObjectDelegate && PickerObjectSelector)
{
NSMethodSignature* signature = [PickerObjectDelegate methodSignatureForSelector:PickerObjectSelector];
NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:signature];
[invocation setTarget:PickerObjectDelegate];
[invocation setSelector:PickerObjectSelector];
[invocation setArgument:&object atIndex:2];
[invocation retainArguments];
[invocation invoke];
}
}
This is how you do the ToolBar. Basically i use the same concept with a ViewController subclass, and i dont use the standard push view or modal display options. (the example here actually places a Textbox and a toolbar on top of the keyboard.
#interface BugEditCommentController : UIViewController {
UITextView* Comment;
UIToolbar* Toolbar;
}
-(void) addToViewWithAnimation:(UIView*) theView;
To activate this view usually you would call [object becomeFirstResponder];
so if you add this to your view Controller constructor, all you need to do is call [object becomeFirstResponder];
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillShow:) name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillHide:) name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
abd if you implement this method on your controller (defined in the above code)
-(void) keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *) note
{
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3];
CGRect toolbarFrame = Toolbar.frame;
CGRect keyboardFrame;
CGPoint keyboardCenter;
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardCenterEndUserInfoKey] getValue:&keyboardCenter];
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardBoundsUserInfoKey] getValue: &keyboardFrame];
//CGRect toolbarRect = Toolbar.center;
toolbarFrame.origin.y= keyboardCenter.y - ((keyboardFrame.size.height/2) + (toolbarFrame.size.height));
Toolbar.frame = toolbarFrame;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
-(void) keyboardWillHide:(id) object
{
//you could call [self removeFromSuperviewHere];
}
-(void) removeFromsuperViewWithAnimation
{
[Comment resignFirstResponder];
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3];
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:#selector(AnimationDidStop:)];
CGRect frame = Toolbar.frame;
frame.origin.y = 480;
Toolbar.frame = frame;
[self.view viewWithTag:1].alpha = 0; //fade transparent black background to clear.
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
-(void)AnimationDidStop:(id) object
{
[self.view removeFromSuperview];
}
hope the additional info helps.

Answer 2

I'm looking for the solution for this issue too.
I found this was the best solution, you can use this SCKit to add tool bar to dismiss the UIPickerView or the UIDatePicker as you want.
Following is github link: https://github.com/scelis/SCKit/tree/
Have fun!