uitextfield

How can I move the clear button in a UITextField?

For some reason, when I add a UITextfield as a subview of the contentview of a tablecell, the clearbutton does not align with the text typed in the field, and appears a bit underneath it. Is there any way I can move the text of the clearbutton to stop this from happening? Thanks for any help, ...

Proper way to resignFirstResponder when a UITableView is touched?

Hello all, I have a pretty simple UITableView who's cells contain UITextFields and I need to be able to call resignFirstResponder to hide the keyboard whenever a user touches the UITableView outside of one of the cells. I have read this question/answer but it seems like a very rudimentary way to achieve this. I have read about a way to...

iPhone OS syntax highlighting UITextField

Hi, I am working on an application and would like to apply some syntax highlighting to some user entered text. I have looked around and some people are suggesting that this can be done in OS 3.2+ but posts seem to be from before the NDA was lifted. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about doing this? I would be interested...

add string to an UITextField with a colored String(iphone)

hi, How to add a colored string to a UITextField,may be i should use HTML or CSS so how? thkx ...

MonkeyPatching UITextField in Flashbuilder 4

I am trying to monkeypatch a UITextField in Flashbuilder 4 for a flex 3 project, so I can change the selectionColor with colorMatrixFilter so all the textfields will get this style update. When I try, I get numerous build errors. ...

Static keyboard in uitableview

I have a UITableView that holds just two cells with a textfield in each. As my tableview is just for editing the text in these textfields I always want the keyboard to be shown static in the bottom of the screen. So in viewDidLoad I set the first textfield to become first responder. Something I have noticed though is that when I push th...

iPhone SDK NumberPad custom inputView for done button

Currently I have a textfield, which pulls up a NumberPad keyboard for input. I want the NumberPad keyboard layout, but I need a button to resign that responder. Is there a way to code the UITextField so that it has a NumberPad keyboard and the space on the left of the keyboard which is blank is replaced with a 'Done', 'Send' or 'Go' bu...

UITextField rigtht frame

Hi, I have a peace of code like this: CGSize lSize = [@"Hello World" sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:13]]; Now I want to have the right frame to see this text in the UITextField. I don't want to change the font size just have the frame for UITextField to fit with this text. I will really appreciate any helps ...

How can I dismiss keyboard in iPhone OS 3.2 with text field in popover?

Edit:Ok, this is weird... After doing extensive debugging, I have discovered that whilst the text fields are resigning first responder status (I can see that there is no longer a blinking bar in any), the keyboard is NOT GOING DOWN! Maybe this deserves a different question. I have several text fields in a custom uiviewcontroller subcla...

Bring to front DatePicker on an UITextField

Hi, When an UITextField is firstResponder, I would like to bring to front an UIDatePicker (bottom part of the screen) without the "going down keyboard" (no call to UITextField resignFirstResponder). The aim is to process like UIKeyboard of UITextField which pop-up on nearly everything when it becomeFirstResponder. modalViewController s...

How can I get a custom UITableView to automatically scroll to a selected text field?

I have a UITableView, which I am controlling from a custom UIViewController. When the user clicks the 'add' button, I add a row to the UITableView with a text field in it, and make it the first responder. The problem is, when the bottom of the table is out of view (or hidden by the keyboard), the UITableView doesn't scroll to bring the t...

Validate against empty UITextField?

What is the value of a UITextField when it is empty? I can't seem to get this right. I've tried (where `phraseBox' it the name of the said UITextField if(phraseBox.text != @""){ and if(phraseBox.text != nil){ What am I missing? ...

Forcing entry of certain character types in UITextField

If I have a UITextField which the user is inputing a registration number, which has the format: 11-11-1111 (that is 2 digits, a dash, 2 digits, a dash, four digits) How do I force the user to enter this kind of data only (as they are actually entering it)... so they can't enter anything except 0-9 in the first character, and only '-' f...

How to simulate the delete key on UITextField?

Hi, I'm creating an application on the iPad. I create a custom keyboard using UITextField's inputView property. To insert text at the cursor position, I use the copy & paste method (http://dev.ragfield.com/2009/09/insert-text-at-current-cursor-location.html), which works fine. Now, I want to create the delete key. The code that I'm usin...

UITableView having one Cell with multiple UITextFields (some of them in one row) scrolling crazy

I have a UITableView (grouped). In that tableview I have several UITableViewCells, some custom with nib, some default. One Cell (custom) with nib has several UITextfields for address information, thus also one row has zip-code and city in one row. When I get the keyboard the tableview size seems to be adjusted automatically (vs. another...

UITextFields losing values after UINavigationController activity

This is going to be hard to demonstrate in code, but maybe you can picture it with me. I have a view that contains two UITextFields, "title" and "descr". That same view contains two UIButtons that push another controller onto the navController to get more detail from the user about the object we're assembling and ultimately uploading to...

UITextField inside of UITableViewCell will not activate on iPad but works on iPhone

I have a UITextField inside a UITableViewCell. It will not activate on the iPad (but it works fine on the iPhone) no matter what I try. Tapping on it and telling it to become the firstResponder both fail. The odd thing is that if I take the exact same code and move it to another view controller in my app it executes just fine. This ma...

Showing tokens in UITextField

Hi all, I want to get tokens appearance in UITextField as we have in NSTokenField ie. as soon as user enters some name in UITextField it gets enclosed within a token. We have this control in to-cc fields in mail in iPhone / iPod and I want to get similar feature in my application. Can anyone suggest me some solution for it??...

UITextField start at end of text

I have a UITextField that displays a long text string. The problem is that when I first open the view containing the UITextField, it automatically shows the end of my text; I want it to show the beginning. I read the UITextField Class Reference on the Apple dev center, but nothing seems to allow me to change it. How can I do this? ...

how to add Done Button to dismiss the Number Pad

I followed the tutorial http://www.neoos.ch/news/46-development/54-uikeyboardtypenumberpad-and-the-missing-return-key to dismiss the number pad, this tutorial add the button as sub view to the number pad, my problem is, in the same view i am using the text field to enter text also,so, how to differentiate the number field, and text f...