hide the keypad of the textfield and display datepicker

Question

i have a form wher i need to enter the start date and end date to view the transactions. when i set the focus on the textfirld, i can see the keypad, but behind it the datepicker is coming. how am i remove the keypad and only show the datepicker

Answer 1

you can call [myTextField resignFirsrResponder] on some button click method or, for example, in textFieldShouldReturn delegate method. smth like that

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

Answer 2

It sounds like instead of a standard keypad, you instead want to show your own datepicker view. I believe you can handle that by setting the delegate for your textfield then providing textFieldShouldBeginEditing.

// in viewWillAppear set the textfield delegate if needed

   ...
   myTextField.delegate = self;
   ...

    - (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{

        // if date picker not in display, show it here...

        return NO;
    }

Answer 3

Hi, I struggled with that myself and found the solution. You can do it this way:

- (void)viewDidLoad 
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
// set delegate for date text field
    dateField.delegate = self;
}

// Display the picker instead of a keyboard
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [self showDatePicker];
    return NO;

}

This assumes, that you have declared a method called showDatePicker, which handles the UIPicker display.

Answer 4

Use these two links.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/DateCell/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40008866