I have tried to disable Copy/Paste in UIWebView by using a category and overriding canPerformAction and returning NO for copy, cut and paste selectors.
It worked as expected when I loaded a webpage or all other document formats (e.g. docx, pptx, rtf, txt) but not when I loaded a PDF document into the UIWebView.
It seems like there is some different mechanism that handles PDF documents in UIWebView which handles/responds to Copy selector, and therefore I can not block it.
I also tried to disable user interaction for all the subviews of the UIWebView's UIScrollView, which worked fine for other document formats except PDF.
Can anyone help figuring out how to disable Copy in UIWebView for PDF documents as well?
OK, so I've been experiencing the same problem myself and seem to find a solution, even if it's partial.
What I do is use a UILongPressGestureRecognizer to disable long press gestures that can lead to copy/paste.
The code:
UILongPressGestureRecognizer* longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleLongPress:)]; // allocating the UILongPressGestureRecognizer
longPress.allowableMovement=100; // Making sure the allowable movement isn't too narrow
longPress.minimumPressDuration=0.3; // This is important - the duration must be long enough to allow taps but not longer than the period in which the scroll view opens the magnifying glass
longPress.delegate=self; // initialization stuff
longPress.delaysTouchesBegan=YES;
longPress.delaysTouchesEnded=YES;
longPress.cancelsTouchesInView=YES; // That's when we tell the gesture recognizer to block the gestures we want
[webView addGestureRecognizer:longPress]; // Add the gesture recognizer to the view and scroll view then release
[[webView scrollView] addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
[longPress release];
This solution worked for me:
METHOD 1 - Detect Custom Long Presses
A) Create a subclass of UILongPressGestureRecogniser.
B) Include the canBePreventedByGestureRecognizer: method in your subclass, like this:
Header:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface CustomLongPress : UILongPressGestureRecognizer
#end
Implementation:
#import "CustomLongPress.h"
#implementation CustomLongPress
- (BOOL)canBePreventedByGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer*)preventedGestureRecognizer {
return NO;
}
#end
That's the only code you need in the subclass.
C) Open up the view containing your uiwebview/pdf reader. Include your subclass: #import "CustomLongPress.h" and then add the custom UILongPressGestureRecogniser to your UIWebView, like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//Load UIWebView etc
//Add your custom gesture recogniser
CustomLongPress * longPress = [[CustomLongPress alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPressDetected)];
[pdfWebView addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
}
D) Detect the long press and switch your UIWebView's userInteraction Off then back On:
-(void)longPressDetected {
NSLog(#"long press detected");
[pdfWebView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
[pdfWebView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
}
Apparently the reason this works is because the UIWebView captures long presses with its own gesture recognisers, to the exclusion of any additional gesture recongisers you've added. But subclassing your gesture recognisers and preventing their exclusion by returning "NO" to the canBePreventedByGestureRecognizer: method overrides the default behaviour.
Once you can detect the long presses on PDFs, switching the userInteraction Off then On again prevents the UIWebView from actioning its default behaviour, i.e. launching a "Copy/Define" UIMenu or, if long pressing over a link, launching a pop-up actionsheet with "Copy" and "Open" actions.
METHOD 2 - Catch UIMenu NSNotification
Alternatively, if you just want to block the "Copy/Define" UIMenu, (but not affect long presses), you can add this line (listening for UIMenuControllerDidShowMenuNotification) to your ViewDidLoad:
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(menuShown) name:UIMenuControllerDidShowMenuNotification object:nil];
and then add this method, using the same userInteraction Off/On method as above:
-(void)menuShown {
NSLog(#"menu shown");
[pdfWebView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
[pdfWebView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
}
First method taken from: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/72521?start=25&tstart=0, and second method from somewhere on Stack, sorry forgotten where. Please include if you know.
Great answer Zubaba. I’m using a webView to display colored and bolded text and I had the same problem. I put your solution into a method and call it just after I initialize the webView. I don’t seem to need the delegate.
self.textView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:textFrame];
[self longPress:self.textView];
- (void)longPress:(UIView *)webView {
UILongPressGestureRecognizer* longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleLongPress)]; // allocating the UILongPressGestureRecognizer
longPress.allowableMovement=100; // Making sure the allowable movement isn't too narrow
longPress.minimumPressDuration=0.3; // This is important - the duration must be long enough to allow taps but not longer than the period in which the scroll view opens the magnifying glass
longPress.delaysTouchesBegan=YES;
longPress.delaysTouchesEnded=YES;
longPress.cancelsTouchesInView=YES; // That's when we tell the gesture recognizer to block the gestures we want
[webView addGestureRecognizer:longPress]; // Add the gesture recognizer to the view and scroll view then release
[webView addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
}
- (void)handleLongPress {
}
In case someone needs Zubaba's answer in Swift 3;
let longPress = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(handleLongPress))
longPress.allowableMovement = 100
longPress.minimumPressDuration = 0.3
longPress.delegate = self
longPress.delaysTouchesBegan = true
longPress.delaysTouchesEnded = true
longPress.cancelsTouchesInView = true
yourWebView.addGestureRecognizer(longPress)
yourWebView.scrollView.addGestureRecognizer(longPress)
func handleLongPress() {
// Show some alert to inform user or do nothing.
}
Here is a modification to Zubaba's answer in Swift 3 that ended up working for me to eliminate warning. I changed assignment longPress.delegate = self to longPress.delegate = self as? UIGestureRecognizerDelegate.
let longPress = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(handleLongPress))
longPress.allowableMovement = 100
longPress.minimumPressDuration = 0.3
longPress.delegate = self as? UIGestureRecognizerDelegate
longPress.delaysTouchesBegan = true
longPress.delaysTouchesEnded = true
longPress.cancelsTouchesInView = true
webView.addGestureRecognizer(longPress)
webView.scrollView.addGestureRecognizer(longPress)
webView.loadRequest(request)
The UILongPressGestureRecognizer is located in the UIPDFPageView. To get access to this view look at the view hierarchy in the Debug menu, currently you can access this view like so once you load the pdf to the web view:
let pdfPageView = myWebView.scrollview?.subviews[0]?.subviews[0]
Then to remove the Long Press use this method while passing in the pdfPageView:
func removeLongPressFromView(view: UIView){
if let gestures = view.gestureRecognizers{
for gesture in gestures{
if gesture is UILongPressGestureRecognzier{
view.removeGestureRecognizer(gesture)
}
}
}
}
Looking for a Xamarin.iOS solution.
var longPressGestureRecognizer = new CustomLongPressGestureRecognizer ((UILongPressGestureRecognizer obj) =>
{
Console.WriteLine ("CustomLongPressGestureRecognizer action");
});
webView.AddGestureRecognizer (longPressGestureRecognizer);
The approach given by Zubaba might look like this:
public class ZubabaLongPressGestureRecognizer : UIKit.UILongPressGestureRecognizer
{
public ZubabaLongPressGestureRecognizer (Action<UILongPressGestureRecognizer> action)
: base (action)
{
AllowableMovement = 100;
MinimumPressDuration = 0.3;
DelaysTouchesBegan = true;
DelaysTouchesEnded = true;
CancelsTouchesInView = true;
}
}
The open/copy/cancel menu still shows the first time a link is long held per PDF page. After that first long press, however, it properly does not show up for that page. That this is PDF page dependent does not give me confidence that there is a solution available.
Johnny Rockex's solutions might look like this:
public class RockexLongPressGestureRecognizer : UIKit.UILongPressGestureRecognizer
{
public RockexLongPressGestureRecognizer(UIKit.UIWebView webView, Action<UILongPressGestureRecognizer> action) :
base(UserInteractionAction(webView) + action)
{
}
private static Action<UILongPressGestureRecognizer> UserInteractionAction(UIKit.UIWebView webView)
{
return (UILongPressGestureRecognizer obj) =>
{
webView.UserInteractionEnabled = false;
webView.UserInteractionEnabled = true;
};
}
public override bool CanPreventGestureRecognizer(UIGestureRecognizer preventedGestureRecognizer)
{
return false;
}
}
and
notificationToken1 = UIMenuController.Notifications.ObserveMenuFrameDidChange (Callback);
notificationToken2 = NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.AddObserver(UIMenuController.DidShowMenuNotification, Callback);
I was not able to get either to do anything. Helpfully someone else has done better with a Xamarin.iOS fix
1.ios11 iphone6 Object-C Without Copy/Paste/lookUp/share
2.
viewDidLoad{
.......
[self setupExclude];
}
- (void)setupExclude{
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPG)];
longPress.minimumPressDuration = 0.2;
[self.webview addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:nil];
singleTapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
singleTapGesture.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
[self.webview addGestureRecognizer:singleTapGesture];
UITapGestureRecognizer *doubleTapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPG)];
doubleTapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
doubleTapGesture.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
[self.webview addGestureRecognizer:doubleTapGesture];
[singleTapGesture requireGestureRecognizerToFail:doubleTapGesture];
}
- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender{
BOOL res = [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
UIMenuController.sharedMenuController.menuVisible = NO;
self.webview.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
self.webview.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
return res;
}
- (void)longPG{
UIMenuController.sharedMenuController.menuVisible = NO;
self.webview.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
self.webview.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
}
3. Done!
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I'm loading the pdf (Having multiple Hyperlinks) document in UIWebview. I have to show UIPopover over hyperlinks dynamically.
I'm able to capture the coordinates of hyperlink using TapGesture Action method
- (void)tapAction:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
self.point = [sender locationInView:self.myWebView];
}
And presenting the UIPopover over hyperlink by using below method
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSURL *rqstUrl = [request URL];
if (([[rqstUrl scheme] isEqualToString: #"https"] || [[rqstUrl scheme] isEqualToString: #"http"]) && (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked))
{
[self.myWebView stopLoading];
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(self.point.x,self.point.y-5, 5, 5);
UIPopoverController *popController = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:contentViewController];
popController.popoverContentSize = CGSizeMake(500, 200);
self.popController = popController;
self.popController.delegate =self;
UIPopoverArrowDirection direction = UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp|UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown;
self.popController.popoverLayoutMargins = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, rect.origin.x, 1, 1);
[self.popController presentPopoverFromRect:rect inView:webView permittedArrowDirections:direction animated:YES];
}
return YES;
}
But the problem is if I tapped in two different locations within 1 or 2 seconds like First Tap is On Hyperlink and Second Tap is on "somewhere else in UIWebview", UIPopover is presenting at second tap location only not in hyperlink location.
I have to show UIPopover based on the Hyperlink position only, not in other location.How can I resolve this issue?
Use an overlay view
Replace your method to register the tap location by an overlay with a tap through. UITapGestureRecognizer has these limitations:
When a tap occurs outside of an hyperlink, it does registers its location, thanks to the UITapGestureRecognizer.
Unfortunately, a UIWebview Hyperlink taps take precedence over the gesture recognizer, and you never get the centroid. This is the real problem, causing the popover to appear misplaced.
UIPopoverController is deprecated in iOS 9.
"UIPopoverController is deprecated. Popovers are now implemented as UIViewController presentations. Use a modal presentation style of UIModalPresentationPopover and UIPopoverPresentationController."
tapAction and shouldStartLoadWithRequest are not coupled, and can occur independently of each other. Furthermore, they are basically mutually exclusive.
Use the overlay to register location in that view, and tap-though to the views underneath. If your overlay and web view have the same frame, you can use the tap position interchangeably. The overlay will guarantee tight coupling, and the rest of your method will work as designed.
class TapOverlayView: UIView {
var centroid:CGRect = CGRect.zero
override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
centroid = CGRect(origin: point, size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 1))
return nil // tap through
}
}
Delegate
extension ViewController: UIWebViewDelegate {
public func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
let rqstUrl = request.url
if( rqstUrl!.scheme?.contains("http"))! && ( .linkClicked == navigationType) {
webView.stopLoading()
let contentViewController = storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "popover")
contentViewController.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
contentViewController.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 200, height: 40)
if let popController = contentViewController.popoverPresentationController {
popController.permittedArrowDirections = .down
popController.sourceView = webView
popController.sourceRect = CGRect(origin: tap.centroid.origin, size: CGSize.zero)
present(contentViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
return true
}
}
► Find this solution on GitHub and additional details on Swift Recipes.
I am working on a project that has the concept of draggable controls, everything is working fine except that NSView seems to employ a fade in/out animation when calling setHidden:.
I have been able to work around the problem by changing the line session.animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail = YES; to NO and implementing the image snapback myself with a custom animated NSWindow subclass. it looks great, but I know there must be an easier way.
I have tried:
using NSAnimationContext grouping with duration of 0 around the setHidden: calls
setting the view animations dictionary using various keys (alpha, hidden, isHidden) on the control and superview
overriding animationForKey: for both the control and its superview
I am not using CALayers and have even tried explicitly setting wantsLayer: to NO.
Does anybody know how to either disable this animation, or have a simpler solution then my animated NSWindow?
here is my stripped down altered code with the bare minimum to see what I'm talking about.
#implementation NSControl (DragControl)
- (NSDraggingSession*)beginDraggingSessionWithDraggingCell:(NSActionCell <NSDraggingSource> *)cell event:(NSEvent*) theEvent
{
NSImage* image = [self imageForCell:cell];
NSDraggingItem* di = [[NSDraggingItem alloc] initWithPasteboardWriter:image];
NSRect dragFrame = [self frameForCell:cell];
dragFrame.size = image.size;
[di setDraggingFrame:dragFrame contents:image];
NSArray* items = [NSArray arrayWithObject:di];
[self setHidden:YES];
return [self beginDraggingSessionWithItems:items event:theEvent source:cell];
}
- (NSRect)frameForCell:(NSCell*)cell
{
// override in multi-cell cubclasses!
return self.bounds;
}
- (NSImage*)imageForCell:(NSCell*)cell
{
return [self imageForCell:cell highlighted:[cell isHighlighted]];
}
- (NSImage*)imageForCell:(NSCell*)cell highlighted:(BOOL) highlight
{
// override in multicell cubclasses to just get an image of the dragged cell.
// for any single cell control we can just make sure that cell is the controls cell
if (cell == self.cell || cell == nil) { // nil signifies entire control
// basically a bitmap of the control
// NOTE: the cell is irrelevant when dealing with a single cell control
BOOL isHighlighted = [cell isHighlighted];
[cell setHighlighted:highlight];
NSRect cellFrame = [self frameForCell:cell];
// We COULD just draw the cell, to an NSImage, but button cells draw their content
// in a special way that would complicate that implementation (ex text alignment).
// subclasses that have multiple cells may wish to override this to only draw the cell
NSBitmapImageRep* rep = [self bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:cellFrame];
NSImage* image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithSize:rep.size];
[self cacheDisplayInRect:cellFrame toBitmapImageRep:rep];
[image addRepresentation:rep];
// reset the original cell state
[cell setHighlighted:isHighlighted];
return image;
}
// cell doesnt belong to this control!
return nil;
}
#pragma mark NSDraggingDestination
- (void)draggingEnded:(id < NSDraggingInfo >)sender
{
[self setHidden:NO];
}
#end
#implementation NSActionCell (DragCell)
- (void)setControlView:(NSView *)view
{
// this is a bit of a hack, but the easiest way to make the control dragging work.
// force the control to accept image drags.
// the control will forward us the drag destination events via our DragControl category
[view registerForDraggedTypes:[NSImage imagePasteboardTypes]];
[super setControlView:view];
}
- (BOOL)trackMouse:(NSEvent *)theEvent inRect:(NSRect)cellFrame ofView:(NSView *)controlView untilMouseUp:(BOOL)untilMouseUp
{
BOOL result = NO;
NSPoint currentPoint = theEvent.locationInWindow;
BOOL done = NO;
BOOL trackContinously = [self startTrackingAt:currentPoint inView:controlView];
BOOL mouseIsUp = NO;
NSEvent *event = nil;
while (!done)
{
NSPoint lastPoint = currentPoint;
event = [NSApp nextEventMatchingMask:(NSLeftMouseUpMask|NSLeftMouseDraggedMask)
untilDate:[NSDate distantFuture]
inMode:NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode
dequeue:YES];
if (event)
{
currentPoint = event.locationInWindow;
// Send continueTracking.../stopTracking...
if (trackContinously)
{
if (![self continueTracking:lastPoint
at:currentPoint
inView:controlView])
{
done = YES;
[self stopTracking:lastPoint
at:currentPoint
inView:controlView
mouseIsUp:mouseIsUp];
}
if (self.isContinuous)
{
[NSApp sendAction:self.action
to:self.target
from:controlView];
}
}
mouseIsUp = (event.type == NSLeftMouseUp);
done = done || mouseIsUp;
if (untilMouseUp)
{
result = mouseIsUp;
} else {
// Check if the mouse left our cell rect
result = NSPointInRect([controlView
convertPoint:currentPoint
fromView:nil], cellFrame);
if (!result)
done = YES;
}
if (done && result && ![self isContinuous])
[NSApp sendAction:self.action
to:self.target
from:controlView];
else {
done = YES;
result = YES;
// this bit-o-magic executes on either a drag event or immidiately following timer expiration
// this initiates the control drag event using NSDragging protocols
NSControl* cv = (NSControl*)self.controlView;
NSDraggingSession* session = [cv beginDraggingSessionWithDraggingCell:self
event:theEvent];
// Note that you will get an ugly flash effect when the image returns if this is set to yes
// you can work around it by setting NO and faking the release by animating an NSWindowSubclass with the image as the content
// create the window in the drag ended method for NSDragOperationNone
// there is [probably a better and easier way around this behavior by playing with view animation properties.
session.animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail = YES;
}
}
}
return result;
}
#pragma mark - NSDraggingSource Methods
- (NSDragOperation)draggingSession:(NSDraggingSession *)session sourceOperationMaskForDraggingContext:(NSDraggingContext)context
{
switch(context) {
case NSDraggingContextOutsideApplication:
return NSDragOperationNone;
break;
case NSDraggingContextWithinApplication:
default:
return NSDragOperationPrivate;
break;
}
}
- (void)draggingSession:(NSDraggingSession *)session endedAtPoint:(NSPoint)screenPoint operation:(NSDragOperation)operation
{
// now tell the control view the drag ended so it can do any cleanup it needs
// this is somewhat hackish
[self.controlView draggingEnded:nil];
}
#end
There must be a layer enabled somewhere in your view hierarchy, otherwise there wouldn't be a fade animation. Here is my way of disabling such animations:
#interface NoAnimationImageView : NSImageView
#end
#implementation NoAnimationImageView
+ (id)defaultAnimationForKey: (NSString *)key
{
return nil;
}
#end
The solution you already tried by setting the view animations dictionary should work. But not for the keys you mention but for the following. Use it somewhere before the animation is triggered the first time. If you have to do it on the window or view or both, I don't know.
NSMutableDictionary *animations = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] animations];
[animations setObject:[NSNull null] forKey: NSAnimationTriggerOrderIn];
[animations setObject:[NSNull null] forKey: NSAnimationTriggerOrderOut];
[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] setAnimations:animations];
Or also just remove the keys if they are there (might not be the case as they are implicit / default):
NSMutableDictionary *animations = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] animations];
[animations removeObjectForKey:NSAnimationTriggerOrderIn];
[animations removeObjectForKey:NSAnimationTriggerOrderOut];
[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] setAnimations:animations];
Ok. I figured out that the animation I'm seeing is not the control, the superview, nor the control's window. It appears that animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail causes NSDraggingSession to create a window (observed with QuartzDebug) and put the drag image in it and it is this window that animates back to the origin and fades out before the setHidden: call is executed (i.e. before the drag operation is concluded).
Unfortunately, the window that it creates is not an NSWindow so creating a category on NSWindow doesn't disable the fade animation.
Secondly, there is no public way that I know of to get a handle on the window, so I can't attempt directly manipulating the window instance.
It looks like maybe my workaround is the best way to do this, after all its not far from what AppKit does for you anyway.
If anybody knows how to get a handle on this window, or what class it is I would be interested to know.
I'd like to create a function that will be called by clicking on texture object. I've just figured out how the button action is processed. Could you tell me plz how it works. Maybe some special controls have to be correspond to texture object?
thanks in advance )))
I assume this is for iOS and by click you mean tap. The following code will add a gesture recognizer to any UIView:
myView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
UITapGestureRecognizer *recognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleTap:)];
recognizer.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
recognizer.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
[myView addGestureRecognizer:recognizer];
And implement your handler like this:
- (void)handleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender {
if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
//your code
}
}
The handleTap: method will be called every time your view receives a tap.
I want to add functionality to my back buttons through my UINavigationController-based app where long-pressing the back button will pop to root. However, I can't figure out where to attach the gesture recognizer. Do I subclass UINavigationBar and try and detect if the long press is in the left button region?
I've heard of people adding similar functionality before. Anyone have any ideas?
I know this question is old, but I came up with a solution. Instead of trying to add the gesture recognizer to the button itself (which would be ideal), I added it to the self.navigationController.navigationBar and then in the action method, use the locationInView to see if I'm over the back button. I wasn't entirely sure about how to identify the back button precisely, so I'm clumsily just grabbing the the first subview with an x coordinate less than some arbitrary value, but it seems promising. If someone has a better way to identify the frame of the back button, let me know.
- (void)longPress:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded)
{
// set a default rectangle in case we don't find the back button for some reason
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 40);
// iterate through the subviews looking for something that looks like it might be the right location to be the back button
for (UIView *subview in self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews)
{
if (subview.frame.origin.x < 30)
{
rect = subview.frame;
break;
}
}
// ok, let's get the point of the long press
CGPoint longPressPoint = [sender locationInView:self.navigationController.navigationBar];
// if the long press point in the rectangle then do whatever
if (CGRectContainsPoint(rect, longPressPoint))
[self doWhatever];
}
}
- (void)addLongPressGesture
{
if (NSClassFromString(#"UILongPressGestureRecognizer"))
{
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPress:)];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
[longPress release];
}
}
I believe UIGestureRecognizers can only be added to UIViews and subclasses of UIViews.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIView_Class/UIView/UIView.html
The back button is a UIBarButtonItem that descends from NSObject. Therefore, you won't be able to attach a gesture recognizer to a standard back button using
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGesture =
[[[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPress:)] autorelease];
[self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem addGestureRecognizer:longPressGesture];
You can however add a custom view to a UIBarButtonItem. A custom view could just as easily be a UIView, UIButton, UILabel, etc.
Example:
UIView *myTransparentGestureView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,40,30)];
[myTransparentGestureView addGestureRecognizer:longPressGesture];
[self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem setCustomView:myTransparentGestureView];
// Or you could set it like this
// self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.customView = myTransparentGestureView;
[myTransparentGestureView release];
You have to be careful however, since setting properties on backBarButtonItem applies to the next view that you push. So if you have view A that pushes to view B and you want the gesture to be recognized when you tap back in view B. You must set it up in view A.
I followed a slightly different path, figured I'd share it. The above answers are fine, but really, if the long press is in the leading 1/3 of the nav bar, that's good enough for me:
- (void)longPress:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)gr
{
NSLog(#"longPress:");
UINavigationBar *navBar = [self navigationBar];
CGFloat height = navBar.bounds.size.height;
CGPoint pt = [gr locationOfTouch:0 inView:navBar];
//NSLog(#"PT=%# height=%f", NSStringFromCGPoint(pt), height);
if(CGRectContainsPoint(CGRectMake(0,0,100,height), pt)) {
[self popToViewController:self.viewControllers[0] animated:YES];
}
}
Here's my solution:
In appDelegate (the "owner" of the nav bar in my app), In applicationDidFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
Get the nav bar view and add the gesture recognizer to the whole view:
// Get the nav bar view
UINavigationBar *myNavBar = nil;
for (UIView *view in [self.window.rootViewController.view subviews]) {
if ([view isKindOfClass:[UINavigationBar class]]) {
NSLog(#"Found Nav Bar!!!");
myNavBar = (UINavigationBar *)view;
}
}
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(backButtonLongPress:)];
[myNavBar addGestureRecognizer:longPress];
NSLog(#"Gesture Recognizer Added.");
Then in appDelegate, in -(void) backButtonLongPress:(id) sender
Check to see if the gesture occurs within the frame of the back button:
if ([sender state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
// Get the nav bar view
UINavigationBar *myNavBar = nil;
for (UIView *view in [self.window.rootViewController.view subviews]) {
if ([view isKindOfClass:[UINavigationBar class]]) {
NSLog(#"Found Nav Bar!!!");
myNavBar = (UINavigationBar *)view;
}
}
// Get the back button view
UIView *backButtonView = nil;
for (UIView *view in [myNavBar subviews]) {
if ([[[view class] description] isEqualToString:#"UINavigationItemButtonView"]) {
backButtonView = view;
NSLog(#"Found It: %#", backButtonView);
NSLog(#"Back Button View Frame: %f, %f; %f, %f", backButtonView.frame.origin.x, backButtonView.frame.origin.y, backButtonView.frame.size.width, backButtonView.frame.size.height);
}
}
CGPoint longPressPoint = [sender locationInView:myNavBar];
NSLog(#"Touch is in back button: %#", CGRectContainsPoint(backButtonView.frame, longPressPoint) ? #"YES" : #"NO");
if (CGRectContainsPoint(backButtonView.frame, longPressPoint)) {
// Place your action here
}
// Do nothing if outside the back button frame
}
I have 6 UITextFields on my UIScrollView. Now, I can scroll by user request. But when the keyboard appear, some textfields are hidden.
That is not user-friendly.
How scroll programmatically the view so I get sure the keyboard not hide the textfield?
Here's what worked for me. Having an instance variable that holds the value of the UIScrollView's offset before the view is adjusted for the keyboard so you can restore the previous state after the UITextField returns:
//header
#interface TheViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> {
CGPoint svos;
}
//implementation
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
svos = scrollView.contentOffset;
CGPoint pt;
CGRect rc = [textField bounds];
rc = [textField convertRect:rc toView:scrollView];
pt = rc.origin;
pt.x = 0;
pt.y -= 60;
[scrollView setContentOffset:pt animated:YES];
}
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[scrollView setContentOffset:svos animated:YES];
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
Finally, a simple fix:
UIScrollView* v = (UIScrollView*) self.view ;
CGRect rc = [textField bounds];
rc = [textField convertRect:rc toView:v];
rc.origin.x = 0 ;
rc.origin.y -= 60 ;
rc.size.height = 400;
[self.scroll scrollRectToVisible:rc animated:YES];
Now I think is only combine this with the link above and is set!
I've put together a universal, drop-in UIScrollView and UITableView subclass that takes care of moving all text fields within it out of the way of the keyboard.
When the keyboard is about to appear, the subclass will find the subview that's about to be edited, and adjust its frame and content offset to make sure that view is visible, with an animation to match the keyboard pop-up. When the keyboard disappears, it restores its prior size.
It should work with basically any setup, either a UITableView-based interface, or one consisting of views placed manually.
Here it is.
(For google: TPKeyboardAvoiding, TPKeyboardAvoidingScrollView, TPKeyboardAvoidingCollectionView.)
Editor's note: TPKeyboardAvoiding seems to be continually updated and fresh, as of 2014.
If you set the delegate of your text fields to a controller object in your program, you can have that object implement the textFieldDidBeginEditing: and textFieldShouldReturn: methods. The first method can then be used to scroll to your text field and the second method can be used to scroll back.
You can find code I have used for this in my blog: Sliding UITextViews around to avoid the keyboard. I didn't test this code for text views in a UIScrollView but it should work.
simple and best
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
// self.scrlViewUI.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, textField.frame.origin.y);
[_scrlViewUI setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0,textField.center.y-90) animated:YES];
tes=YES;
[self viewDidLayoutSubviews];
}
The answers posted so far didn't work for me as I've a quite deep nested structure of UIViews. Also, the I had the problem that some of those answers were working only on certain device orientations.
Here's my solution, which will hopefully make you waste some less time on this.
My UIViewTextView derives from UIView, is a UITextView delegate and adds a UITextView after having read some parameters from an XML file for that UITextView (that XML part is left out here for clarity).
Here's the private interface definition:
#import "UIViewTextView.h"
#import <CoreGraphics/CoreGraphics.h>
#import <CoreGraphics/CGColor.h>
#interface UIViewTextView (/**/) {
#private
UITextView *tf;
/*
* Current content scroll view
* position and frame
*/
CGFloat currentScrollViewPosition;
CGFloat currentScrollViewHeight;
CGFloat kbHeight;
CGFloat kbTop;
/*
* contentScrollView is the UIScrollView
* that contains ourselves.
*/
UIScrollView contentScrollView;
}
#end
In the init method I have to register the event handlers:
#implementation UIViewTextView
- (id) initWithScrollView:(UIScrollView*)scrollView {
self = [super init];
if (self) {
contentScrollView = scrollView;
// ...
tf = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 241, 31)];
// ... configure tf and fetch data for it ...
tf.delegate = self;
// ...
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWasShown:) name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWasHidden:) name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
[self addSubview:tf];
}
return(self);
}
Once that's done, we need to handle the keyboard show event. This gets called before the textViewBeginEditing is called, so we can use it to find out some properties of the keyboard. In essence, we want to know the height of the keyboard. This, unfortunately, needs to be taken from its width property in landscape mode:
-(void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
CGRect kbRect = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
CGSize kbSize = kbRect.size;
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat sWidth = screenRect.size.width;
CGFloat sHeight = screenRect.size.height;
UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
if ((orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait)
||(orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown)) {
kbHeight = kbSize.height;
kbTop = sHeight - kbHeight;
} else {
//Note that the keyboard size is not oriented
//so use width property instead
kbHeight = kbSize.width;
kbTop = sWidth - kbHeight;
}
Next, we need to actually scroll around when we start editing. We do this here:
- (void) textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
/*
* Memorize the current scroll position
*/
currentScrollViewPosition = contentScrollView.contentOffset.y;
/*
* Memorize the current scroll view height
*/
currentScrollViewHeight = contentScrollView.frame.size.height;
// My top position
CGFloat myTop = [self convertPoint:self.bounds.origin toView:[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController.view].y;
// My height
CGFloat myHeight = self.frame.size.height;
// My bottom
CGFloat myBottom = myTop + myHeight;
// Eventual overlap
CGFloat overlap = myBottom - kbTop;
/*
* If there's no overlap, there's nothing to do.
*/
if (overlap < 0) {
return;
}
/*
* Calculate the new height
*/
CGRect crect = contentScrollView.frame;
CGRect nrect = CGRectMake(crect.origin.x, crect.origin.y, crect.size.width, currentScrollViewHeight + overlap);
/*
* Set the new height
*/
[contentScrollView setFrame:nrect];
/*
* Set the new scroll position
*/
CGPoint npos;
npos.x = contentScrollView.contentOffset.x;
npos.y = contentScrollView.contentOffset.y + overlap;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:npos animated:NO];
}
When we end editing, we do this to reset the scroll position:
- (void) textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
/*
* Reset the scroll view position
*/
CGRect crect = contentScrollView.frame;
CGRect nrect = CGRectMake(crect.origin.x, crect.origin.y, crect.size.width, currentScrollViewHeight);
[contentScrollView setFrame:nrect];
/*
* Reset the scroll view height
*/
CGPoint npos;
npos.x = contentScrollView.contentOffset.x;
npos.y = currentScrollViewPosition;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:npos animated:YES];
[tf resignFirstResponder];
// ... do something with your data ...
}
There's nothing left to do in the keyboard was hidden event handler; we leave it in anyway:
-(void)keyboardWasHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
}
And that's it.
/*
// Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
// Drawing code
}
*/
#end
I know this is old, but still none of the solutions above had all the fancy positioning stuff required for that "perfect" bug-free, backwards compatible and flicker-free animation.
Let me share my solution (assuming you have set up UIKeyboardWill(Show|Hide)Notification):
// Called when UIKeyboardWillShowNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification*)notification
{
// if we have no view or are not visible in any window, we don't care
if (!self.isViewLoaded || !self.view.window) {
return;
}
NSDictionary *userInfo = [notification userInfo];
CGRect keyboardFrameInWindow;
[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue:&keyboardFrameInWindow];
// the keyboard frame is specified in window-level coordinates. this calculates the frame as if it were a subview of our view, making it a sibling of the scroll view
CGRect keyboardFrameInView = [self.view convertRect:keyboardFrameInWindow fromView:nil];
CGRect scrollViewKeyboardIntersection = CGRectIntersection(_scrollView.frame, keyboardFrameInView);
UIEdgeInsets newContentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, scrollViewKeyboardIntersection.size.height, 0);
// this is an old animation method, but the only one that retains compaitiblity between parameters (duration, curve) and the values contained in the userInfo-Dictionary.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue]];
_scrollView.contentInset = newContentInsets;
_scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = newContentInsets;
/*
* Depending on visual layout, _focusedControl should either be the input field (UITextField,..) or another element
* that should be visible, e.g. a purchase button below an amount text field
* it makes sense to set _focusedControl in delegates like -textFieldShouldBeginEditing: if you have multiple input fields
*/
if (_focusedControl) {
CGRect controlFrameInScrollView = [_scrollView convertRect:_focusedControl.bounds fromView:_focusedControl]; // if the control is a deep in the hierarchy below the scroll view, this will calculate the frame as if it were a direct subview
controlFrameInScrollView = CGRectInset(controlFrameInScrollView, 0, -10); // replace 10 with any nice visual offset between control and keyboard or control and top of the scroll view.
CGFloat controlVisualOffsetToTopOfScrollview = controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y - _scrollView.contentOffset.y;
CGFloat controlVisualBottom = controlVisualOffsetToTopOfScrollview + controlFrameInScrollView.size.height;
// this is the visible part of the scroll view that is not hidden by the keyboard
CGFloat scrollViewVisibleHeight = _scrollView.frame.size.height - scrollViewKeyboardIntersection.size.height;
if (controlVisualBottom > scrollViewVisibleHeight) { // check if the keyboard will hide the control in question
// scroll up until the control is in place
CGPoint newContentOffset = _scrollView.contentOffset;
newContentOffset.y += (controlVisualBottom - scrollViewVisibleHeight);
// make sure we don't set an impossible offset caused by the "nice visual offset"
// if a control is at the bottom of the scroll view, it will end up just above the keyboard to eliminate scrolling inconsistencies
newContentOffset.y = MIN(newContentOffset.y, _scrollView.contentSize.height - scrollViewVisibleHeight);
[_scrollView setContentOffset:newContentOffset animated:NO]; // animated:NO because we have created our own animation context around this code
} else if (controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y < _scrollView.contentOffset.y) {
// if the control is not fully visible, make it so (useful if the user taps on a partially visible input field
CGPoint newContentOffset = _scrollView.contentOffset;
newContentOffset.y = controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y;
[_scrollView setContentOffset:newContentOffset animated:NO]; // animated:NO because we have created our own animation context around this code
}
}
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
// Called when the UIKeyboardWillHideNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification*)notification
{
// if we have no view or are not visible in any window, we don't care
if (!self.isViewLoaded || !self.view.window) {
return;
}
NSDictionary *userInfo = notification.userInfo;
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:[[userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:[[userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue]];
// undo all that keyboardWillShow-magic
// the scroll view will adjust its contentOffset apropriately
_scrollView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
_scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
You may check it out: https://github.com/michaeltyson/TPKeyboardAvoiding (I used that sample for my apps). It is working so well. I hope that helps you.
Actually, here's a full tutorial on using TPKeyboardAvoiding, which may help someone
(1) download the zip file from the github link. add these four files to your Xcode project:
(2) build your beautiful form in IB. add a UIScrollView. sit the form items INSIDE the scroll view. (Note - extremely useful tip regarding interface builder: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16952902/294884)
(3) click on the scroll view. then at the top right, third button, you'll see the word "UIScrollView". using copy and paste, change it to "TPKeyboardAvoidingScrollView"
(4) that's it. put the app in the app store, and bill your client.
(Also, just click on the Inspector tab of the scroll view. You may prefer to turn on or off bouncing and the scroll bars - your preference.)
Personal comment - I strongly recommend using scroll view (or collection view) for input forms, in almost all cases. do not use a table view. it's problematic for many reasons. and quite simply, it's incredibly easier to use a scroll view. just lay it out any way you want. it is 100% wysiwyg in interface builder. hope it helps
This is my code, hope it will help you. It work ok in case you have many textfield
CGPoint contentOffset;
bool isScroll;
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
contentOffset = self.myScroll.contentOffset;
CGPoint newOffset;
newOffset.x = contentOffset.x;
newOffset.y = contentOffset.y;
//check push return in keyboar
if(!isScroll){
//180 is height of keyboar
newOffset.y += 180;
isScroll=YES;
}
[self.myScroll setContentOffset:newOffset animated:YES];
}
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField{
//reset offset of content
isScroll = NO;
[self.myScroll setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:YES];
[textField endEditing:true];
return true;
}
we have a point contentOffset to save contentoffset of scrollview before keyboar show. Then we will scroll content for y about 180 (height of keyboar). when you touch return in keyboar, we will scroll content to old point(it is contentOffset). If you have many textfield, you don't touch return in keyboar but you touch another textfield, it will +180 . So we have check touch return
Use any of these,
CGPoint bottomOffset = CGPointMake(0, self.MainScrollView.contentSize.height - self.MainScrollView.bounds.size.height);
[self.MainScrollView setContentOffset:bottomOffset animated:YES];
or
[self.MainScrollView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0, self.MainScrollView.contentSize.height - self.MainScrollView.bounds.size.height-30, MainScrollView.frame.size.width, MainScrollView.frame.size.height) animated:YES];
I think it's better use keyboard notifications because you don't know if the first responder (the control with focus on) is a textField or a textView (or whatever). So juste create a category to find the first responder :
#import "UIResponder+FirstResponder.h"
static __weak id currentFirstResponder;
#implementation UIResponder (FirstResponder)
+(id)currentFirstResponder {
currentFirstResponder = nil;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:#selector(findFirstResponder:) to:nil from:nil forEvent:nil];
return currentFirstResponder;
}
-(void)findFirstResponder:(id)sender {
currentFirstResponder = self;
}
#end
then
-(void)keyboardWillShowNotification:(NSNotification*)aNotification{
contentScrollView.delegate=nil;
contentScrollView.scrollEnabled=NO;
contentScrollViewOriginalOffset = contentScrollView.contentOffset;
UIResponder *lc_firstResponder = [UIResponder currentFirstResponder];
if([lc_firstResponder isKindOfClass:[UIView class]]){
UIView *lc_view = (UIView *)lc_firstResponder;
CGRect lc_frame = [lc_view convertRect:lc_view.bounds toView:contentScrollView];
CGPoint lc_point = CGPointMake(0, lc_frame.origin.y-lc_frame.size.height);
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:lc_point animated:YES];
}
}
Eventually disable the scroll and set the delegate to nil then restore it to avoid some actions during the edition of the first responder. Like james_womack said, keep the original offset to restore it in a keyboardWillHideNotification method.
-(void)keyboardWillHideNotification:(NSNotification*)aNotification{
contentScrollView.delegate=self;
contentScrollView.scrollEnabled=YES;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:contentScrollViewOriginalOffset animated:YES];
}
In Swift 1.2+ do something like this:
class YourViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
_yourTextField.delegate = self //make sure you have the delegate set to this view controller for each of your textFields so textFieldDidBeginEditing can be called for each one
...
}
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) {
var point = textField.convertPoint(textField.frame.origin, toView: _yourScrollView)
point.x = 0.0 //if your textField does not have an origin at 0 for x and you don't want your scrollView to shift left and right but rather just up and down
_yourScrollView.setContentOffset(point, animated: true)
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField) {
//Reset scrollview once done editing
scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint.zero, animated: true)
}
}