Hiding the keyboard when UITextField loses focus

Question

Hello everyone, I've seen some threads about how to dismiss the Keyboard when a UITextField loses focus, but it did not work for me and I don't know how. The "touchesBegan:withEvent:" in the following code, never gets called. Why?

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

    UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
    if ([self.textFieldOnFocus isFirstResponder] && [touch view] != self.textFieldOnFocus) {
        [textFieldOnFocus resignFirstResponder];
    }
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

P.S.: This code has been inserted in the view controller which has a UITableView. The UITextField is in a cell from this table.

So, my opinion is: this method is not being called, cause the touch occurs on the UITableView from my ViewController. So, I think, that to I should have to subclass the UITableView, to use this method as I have seen on other Threads, but it may have a easier way.

Could you please help me? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Make sure you set the delegate of the UITextField to First Responder in IB. And I just put a custom (invisible) UIButton over the screen and set up an IBAction to hide the keyboard. Ex:

- (IBAction)hideKeyboard {
    [someTextField resignFirstResponder];
}

With that hooked up to a UIButton.