uitextfield

iPhone SDK/General Xcode question.

In the iPhone SDK, in my .n, I can say: -(IBOutlet) UITextField *MyNameIs; -(IBOutlet) UILabel *DisplayMyNameIsHere; } -(IBAction)PressButtonToDisplayYourName; Then in my .m, I'll do: -(IBAction)PressButtonToDisplayYourName { DisplayMyNameIsHere = MyNameIs.text; } But now how would I translate that to making a Mac applicatio...

Formatting the number entered in textfield in iPhone

I have a text field where the user enters a number, which is in the range of thousands. I want the text field to be formatted as the user enters the number, example : 200000 should become 200,000. how do i go about doing this?? Many Thanks, S ...

Format Text Field While User Enters Data

Hello, so here is what I am trying to do. I have a birth date text field, while the user in puts text i want the field to automatically put it in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Basically while the user types it replaces the Y's M's and D's but leaves the hyphen. I am not sure how to go about this i may need a mask or something. I know this i...

How to push a view using textFieldDidBeginEditing event?

I want to push a view when I tap on a textfield, and I use the method textFieldDidBeginEditing to do it. The thing is that my navigation controller crashes someway that when I try to go back to the view when the textField is, the navigation bar seems to pop back, but the view that should be popped, stays. On the other hand, I want the t...

UILabel: adjusting margins to match a UITextView

I have a UILabel and if i adjust the size of the text i can make it look loke a UITextView however the left margin is different, on the UIlabel the text is right up against the left border where the UITextView has a slight margin. How do i adjust the UILabel so that when these controls are placed above one another, they look consistent? ...

iPhone: how can I activate a text field programmatically (and not wait for the user to touch it)

I have a UIViewController that is a UITextFieldDelegate, and I would like the keyboard for its text field to appear as soon as the user navigates to this view, without having to actually touch the text field. It would also be nice to be able to "dismiss" the entire view when the keyboard is dismissed. I am loading the view from a xib fil...

iPad "dismiss keyboard" button (lower right), how do I detect when this occurs? What function tells me it was pressed?

I have an ipad app that when you are in landscape view, the view will move up when the keyboard is brought in. When you press done on the keyboard, textFieldShouldReturn and textFieldShouldEndEditing are called in which case, I move the view down in shouldEndEditing. If the user presses the dismiss keyboard button, the keyboard does poo...

Force UITextField to keep firstResponder after validation failure

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textFieldShouldEndEditing called multiple times

Hi all, I am working on a view that has multiple UITextField objects. My view controller serves as the UITextFieldDelegate, and I've implemented the (BOOL)textFieldShouldEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField method to save and validate the record being displayed. If the user clicks on the "Done" button after editing an item and the save...

dismissing Number Pad.

Hi All, In my app I have a text field that takes some number input from user so i set the keyboard type to "Number Pad"but now i am stuck as to how should i dismiss it when user finishes giving input . i know i have to use the delegate method "textfieldShouldReturn" but the problem is that number pad dont have a return key.so is it nece...

Handeling single uitextfield within UITableView

Hi All, Here is the scenario I am working on, I have a single textField in the cell allocation section and after this section I try to provide give the text field various arguments. Works fine no problem till here, the problem lies how to handle which textField is returning in the delegate method. My Earlier approach was to simply ...

Unwanted automatic scrolling with UIScrollView and UITextFields as subviews

The "too long; didn't read" version: Is there any way to disable the automatic scrolling behaviour of UIScrollView when telling a UITextField to becomeFirstResponder? I have a scroll view with paging enabled and several views as subviews, each subview being controlled by its own view controller. Each subview has a UITextField. The requ...

Move programmatically cursor in UiTextField

Hi, I need to tweak UiTextField behavior so that I can programmatically insert some asterisks and move the cursor at the beginning of the string; I tried the "paste" trick (http://dev.ragfield.com/2009/09/insert-text-at-current-cursor-location.html), but the cursor is moved at the end. The effect I try to achieve is like this: At the sta...

Adding UIView to UITextField

Hi, I am trying to use a custom iPhone control called Kal, which displays a calendar, and I want to modify it. Kal programatically sets a table view as follows: tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:fullWidthAutomaticLayoutFrame style:UITableViewStylePlain]; tableView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIVie...

iPhone generic string, text, choice editor controller

Each time I build an iphone application, I found myself writing the same code over and over again: generic string || text || choice editor controllers. Imagine a tableview showing some data that I want to edit. When I click a string field (short text), I open a generic string editor controller, with a tableview with 1 cell, and a keyboa...

checking if a textfield is null

I currently add objects to an array with a label taken from the textfield input from the user. At the moment it adds an entry even if the field is blank. I assign the textfield to a string and then want to check if it is nil, if it is then dont add it to the array. I am used to java where it could be done with something like if(enter...

Validation with multiple UITextFields

Hi, I would like to create a UIView has multiple UITextFields validates each one as the user is done editing it. The view controller is the delegate for each of the UITextFields. When a user changes a value in one of those UITextFields and either touches "done" on the keyboard or touches on another one of the textfields in the view, I...

Weird Keyboard behavior when the device rotates.

This is something that happens to me really often. I have a textfield in a table view cell, when I try to edit the textfield the keyboard appears, and when I rotate the device from landscape to portrait, this is what I get. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. ...

How to make faster pushing a UIViewController into a UINavigationController

I have a multiple view based application, the problem is that when I push one UIViewController the device (only when I test it on a real device) freezes for a second or two, I don't know why is this happening since the pushed UIViewController has only one UITextField & a button. This only happens when the view is pushed the first time, a...

Prevent default keyboard from showing when UITextField is pressed

Is there a way to make a custom keyboard to pop up when a user presses on a UITextField. I have a view with a custom keypad on it and I want that to come up when the user presses on the UITextField instead of the default apple keyboard. ...