I have a very strange issue, UITextView touch event crash on double tap whereas same code works with < iOS10 version. (It means below iOS10 version there is no crash for press gesture recognizer)
Actually, I am adding the double tap and log press gesture based on permission. If the user has permission to comment then add gestures in viewDidLoad methods. Comment is allowed only with double tap or long press
singleTapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(singleTapGestureAction:)];
singleTapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
// adding gesture to open window for commenting only when he has writing access
if (canComment) {
longPressgesture = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(longPressGestureAction:)];
longPressgesture.minimumPressDuration = 0.2;
doubleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(doDoubleTap:)];
doubleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
}
On single tap
-(void)singleTapGestureAction:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)tapGestureRecognizer{
if (isSingleTapped) {
isSingleTapped = NO;
return;
}
isSingleTapped = YES;
UITextView *textView = (UITextView *)tapGestureRecognizer.view;
[self.commentView becomeFirstResponder]; // becomeFirstResponder
}
On double tap
-(void)doDoubleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)tapGestureRecognizer
{
UITextView *textView = (UITextView *)tapGestureRecognizer.view;
[self.commentView becomeFirstResponder]; // becomeFirstResponder
// To show the UIMenuController menu
[self setCommentMenuToolTipWithRect:completeRect];
}
NOTE: I am adding [self.commentView becomeFirstResponder]; on every gesture action
UITextView delegate methods
- (void)textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)inView
{
[self.commentView becomeFirstResponder];
range=[self.commentView selectedRange];
}
USE CASE:
When I double tap to select any word then APP CRASH and UIMenuController does not appear,
but if I add the following line app does not crash
- (void)textViewDidChangeSelection:(UITextView *)textView{
[textView resignFirstResponder];
} // app does not crash
and UIMenuController appears with comment menu items that's great. I was happy that I have fixed the crash issue.
But there is another problem, when I press outside, menu hides and
select any word AGAIN then It does not appear SECOND time.
I have tried all the possible way to show the menu for returns
YES/TRUE to canBecomeFirstResponder. I know, there has to be a view
that claims firstResponder for the menu to show. but how ?
On second time touch, not even calling any gesture recognizer method
From the logs it is clear that when double tap is recognized, same touch update is also sent to another gesture recognizer, which fails.
So, a simple solution would be to avoid detection of other gestures on double tap.
This can simply be achieved by making all other gestures on commentView require doubleTap to fail using requireGestureRecognizerToFail. just add the condition in addGestureToTextView method as shown below.
if (withDoubleTap && self.canScreenPlayEdit) {
[self.commentView removeGestureRecognizer:singleTapGesture];
[self.commentView addGestureRecognizer:doubleTap];
[self.commentView addGestureRecognizer:longPressgesture];
for (UIGestureRecognizer *recognizer in self.commentView.gestureRecognizers) {
[recognizer requireGestureRecognizerToFail:doubleTap];
}
}
This does solve the crash and also shows the menu without calling resignFirstResponder in textViewDidChangeSelection.
However, there seem to be many issues in your code. PLSceneDetailsVC is too complicated and you need to simplify the code. You need to streamline the gesture management or you will end up facing many more such issues.
longPressgesture.minimumPressDuration = 0.2;
My guess the problem is here. 0.2s is way too small to be used for longPress. Probably both were triggered (longPress and double tap).
Change it to higher like 1.5s.
So i was reading the description about UITextView's and it says that it automatically hides the keyboard when you press the 'Return' button on the keyboard. But it wasn't working, so I tried creating an
- (IBAction)textViewReturn:(id)sender;
{
[myTextView resignFirstResponder];
}
That did not work either so i tried also doing:
- (BOOL)textViewShouldReturn:(UITextView *)textView
{
[myTextView resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
}
Not sure why the whole deal isn't working in the first place. Wondering if anyone could help?
I don't see anything in the UITextView Class Reference that says it automatically hides the keyboard when you press Return.
Also, there is no textViewShouldReturn: message in the UITextViewDelegate protocol. There is a textFieldShouldReturn: message in the UITextFieldDelegate protocol, but a text view is not a text field.
If you want it to hide the keyboard when the user presses Return, you need to do two things.
First, you need to connect some object - usually your view controller - to the text view's delegate outlet. You can do that in your nib, or you can do it in code, perhaps in your viewDidLoad method:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
myTextView.delegate = self;
}
Second, you need to implement the textView:shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementText: in your delegate object:
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
if ([text isEqualToString:#"\n"]) {
[textView resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
} else {
return YES;
}
}
Note that if the user pastes in text containing a newline and other characters, this will not catch the newline. It will only notice when the user either taps the Return key, or when he pastes in text containing just a newline.
You can declare the delegate's class as conforming to the UITextViewDelegate protocol, in which case Xcode will helpfully autocomplete the method name. But it will work even if the class doesn't conform to the protocol.
Return button of UITextView is used to mote the cursor to the new line. But if you want to remove the keyboard on return button then please try the following code. It resigns the keyboard when return button is pressed by user. So try following code which definitely solved your problem.
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
if ([text isEqualToString:#"\n"]) {
[textView resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
} else {
return YES;
}
}
Per your comment, if you want to use a UITextField instead of a UITextView, then things remain the same except that in order to hide the keyboard when you hit return, you need to implement the following function in the text field's delegate (make sure that you have set this first):
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
I want to implement an NSTextField where when I click it, it selects all the text. (to give the user easy way to delete all current text)
when I finish editing it, either by pressing enter/tab or moving the mouse outside of it's rect, I will move the focus out of the field, and change it's alpha values to 0.5.
My Code:
H file:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#interface MoodMsgTextField : NSTextField<NSTextFieldDelegate>
#end
M file:
-(BOOL) becomeFirstResponder
{
NSLog(#"become first responder");
BOOL result = [super becomeFirstResponder];
if(result)
{
[self setAlphaValue:1.0];
[self performSelector:#selector(selectText:) withObject:self afterDelay:0];
}
return result;
}
-(BOOL) refusesFirstResponder
{
return NO;
}
-(BOOL) resignFirstResponder
{
NSLog(#"resigning first responder");
BOOL result = [super resignFirstResponder];
NSText* fieldEditor = [self.window fieldEditor:YES forObject:self];
[fieldEditor setSelectedRange:NSMakeRange(0,0)];
[fieldEditor setNeedsDisplay:YES];
[self setAlphaValue:0.5];
return result;
}
-(void)awakeFromNib
{
self.delegate = self;
[self setAlphaValue:0.5];
[self setBordered:YES];
[self setWantsLayer:YES];
self.layer.borderWidth = 0.5;
self.layer.borderColor = [[NSColor grayColor] CGColor];
}
- (void)controlTextDidChange:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
NSLog(#"the text is %#",self.stringValue);
}
- (void)controlTextDidEndEditing:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
NSLog(#"end editiing : the text is %#",self.stringValue);
[self.window makeFirstResponder:nil];
}
- (void)mouseEntered:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
[self setWantsLayer:YES];
self.layer.borderWidth = 0.5;
self.layer.borderColor = [[NSColor grayColor] CGColor];
}
- (void)mouseExited:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
[self setWantsLayer:YES];
self.layer.borderWidth = 0;
}
So, I have a few problem:
1.
When I press inside the NSTextField (when the focus is outside) it instantly becomes and resigns first responder and I get editing end message. Why is that ?
The log I get on click is this :
2011-08-02 18:03:19.044 ooVoo[42415:707] become first responder
2011-08-02 18:03:19.045 ooVoo[42415:707] resigning first responder
2011-08-02 18:03:19.104 ooVoo[42415:707] end editing : the text is
2.
When I press the enter key it just selects all text inside and doesn't move the mouse focus. When I press the tab is does seem to move focus, however neither of the two causes the resignFirstResponder to get called. Why ?
3.
None of the mouse event function are getting called. Do I need to to do something special for that ? I thought that since they are NSResponder's ones, I will get those for free by inheriting from NSTextField. Do I need NSTrackingInfo here as well ?
4.
Last but not least, for some reason, every couple letters, one letter seems to be bold.
I have no idea why.
I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks
I am not sure why this is happening in this case but you should read about the Field Editor concept. Basically a NSTextField does not handle its own input but uses an NSTextView called the field editor to accept input.
You need to react to the Enter key yourself. Take a look at the key handling documentation. Here is an answer with an example.
To get mouse events you can use NSTrackingArea. See the docs for Mouse Tracking.
I do not have any input on this except that sometimes text drawing can look bold when really what is happening is that the text is being drawn multiple times without erasing the background.
I have quite a few controls scattered throughout many table cells in my table, and I was wondering if there's an easier way to dismiss the keyboard without having to loop through all my controls and resigning them all as the first responder. I guess the question is.. How would I get the current first responder to the keyboard?
Try:
[self.view endEditing:YES];
You can force the currently-editing view to resign its first responder status with [view endEditing:YES]. This hides the keyboard.
Unlike -[UIResponder resignFirstResponder], -[UIView endEditing:] will search through subviews to find the current first responder. So you can send it to your top-level view (e.g. self.view in a UIViewController) and it will do the right thing.
(This answer previously included a couple of other solutions, which also worked but were more complicated than is necessary. I've removed them to avoid confusion.)
You can send a nil targeted action to the application, it'll resign first responder at any time without having to worry about which view currently has first responder status.
Objective-C:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:#selector(resignFirstResponder) to:nil from:nil forEvent:nil];
Swift 3.0:
UIApplication.shared.sendAction(#selector(resignFirstResponder), to: nil, from: nil, for: nil)
Nil targeted actions are common on Mac OS X for menu commands, and here's a use for them on iOS.
To be honest, I'm not crazy about any of the solutions proposed here. I did find a nice way to use a TapGestureRecognizer that I think gets to the heart of your problem: When you click on anything besides the keyboard, dismiss the keyboard.
In viewDidLoad, register to receive keyboard notifications and create a UITapGestureRecognizer:
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:
UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:
UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(didTapAnywhere:)];
Add the keyboard show/hide responders. There you add and remove the TapGestureRecognizer to the UIView that should dismiss the keyboard when tapped. Note: You do not have to add it to all of the sub-views or controls.
-(void) keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *) note {
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
}
-(void) keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *) note
{
[self.view removeGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
}
The TapGestureRecognizer will call your function when it gets a tap and you can dismiss the keyboard like this:
-(void)didTapAnywhere: (UITapGestureRecognizer*) recognizer {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}
The nice thing about this solution is that it only filters for Taps, not swipes. So if you have scrolling content above the keyboard, swipes will still scroll and leave the keyboard displayed. By removing the gesture recognizer after the keyboard is gone, future taps on your view get handled normally.
This is a solution to make the keyboard go away when hit return in any textfield, by adding code in one place (so don't have to add a handler for each textfield):
consider this scenario:
i have a viewcontroller with two textfields (username and password).
and the viewcontroller implements UITextFieldDelegate protocol
i do this in viewDidLoad
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
username.delegate = self;
password.delegate = self;
}
and the viewcontroller implements the optional method as
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
and irrespective of the textfield you are in, as soon as i hit return in the keyboard, it gets dismissed!
In your case, the same would work as long as you set all the textfield's delegate to self and implement textFieldShouldReturn
A better approach is to have something "steal" first responder status.
Since UIApplication is a subclass of UIResponder, you could try:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] becomeFirstResponder]
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] resignFirstResponder]
Failing that, create a new UITextField with a zero sized frame, add it to a view somewhere and do something similar (become followed by resign).
Tuck this away in some utility class.
+ (void)dismissKeyboard {
[self globalResignFirstResponder];
}
+ (void) globalResignFirstResponder {
UIWindow * window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
for (UIView * view in [window subviews]){
[self globalResignFirstResponderRec:view];
}
}
+ (void) globalResignFirstResponderRec:(UIView*) view {
if ([view respondsToSelector:#selector(resignFirstResponder)]){
[view resignFirstResponder];
}
for (UIView * subview in [view subviews]){
[self globalResignFirstResponderRec:subview];
}
}
#Nicholas Riley & #Kendall Helmstetter Geln & #cannyboy:
Absolutely brilliant!
Thank you.
Considering your advice and the advice of others in this thread, this is what I've done:
What it looks like when used:
[[self appDelegate] dismissKeyboard]; (note: I added appDelegate as an addition to NSObject so I can use anywhere on anything)
What it looks like under the hood:
- (void)dismissKeyboard
{
UITextField *tempTextField = [[[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero] autorelease];
tempTextField.enabled = NO;
[myRootViewController.view addSubview:tempTextField];
[tempTextField becomeFirstResponder];
[tempTextField resignFirstResponder];
[tempTextField removeFromSuperview];
}
EDIT
Amendment to my answer to included tempTextField.enabled = NO;. Disabling the text field will prevent UIKeyboardWillShowNotification and UIKeyboardWillHideNotification keyboard notifications from being sent should you rely on these notifications throughout your app.
Quick tip on how to dismiss the keyboard in iOS when a user touches anywhere on the screen outside of the UITextField or keyboard. Considering how much real estate the iOS keyboard can take up, it makes sense to have an easy and intuitive way for your users to dismiss the keyboard.
Here's a link
A lot of overly-complicated answers here, perhaps because this is not easy to find in the iOS documentation. JosephH had it right above:
[[view window] endEditing:YES];
Here's what I use in my code. It works like a charm!
In yourviewcontroller.h add:
#property (nonatomic) UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer;
Now in the .m file, add this to your ViewDidLoad function:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
//Keyboard stuff
tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(didTapAnywhere:)];
tapRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
}
Also, add this function in the .m file:
- (void)handleSingleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *) sender
{
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
Even Simpler than Meagar's answer
overwrite touchesBegan:withEvent:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];`
}
This will dismiss the keyboardwhen you touch anywhere in the background.
You should send endEditing: to working window being the subclass of UIView
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].windows.firstObject endEditing:NO];
In your view controller's header file add <UITextFieldDelegate> to the definition of your controller's interface so that it conform to the UITextField delegate protocol...
#interface someViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>
... In the controller's implementation file (.m) add the following method, or the code inside it if you already have a viewDidLoad method ...
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
self.yourTextBox.delegate = self;
}
... Then, link yourTextBox to your actual text field
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)theTextField
{
if (theTextField == yourTextBox) {
[theTextField resignFirstResponder];
}
return YES;
}
The best way to dismiss keyboard from UITableView and UIScrollView are:
tableView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag
In swift 3 you can do the following
UIApplication.shared.sendAction(#selector(UIResponder.resignFirstResponder), to: nil, from: nil, for: nil)
Jeremy's answer wasn't quite working for me, I think because I had a navigation stack in a tab view with a modal dialog on top of it. I'm using the following right now and it is working for me, but your mileage may vary.
// dismiss keyboard (mostly macro)
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate dismissKeyboard]; // call this in your to app dismiss the keybaord
// --- dismiss keyboard (in indexAppDelegate.h) (mostly macro)
- (void)dismissKeyboard;
// --- dismiss keyboard (in indexAppDelegate.m) (mostly macro)
// do this from anywhere to dismiss the keybard
- (void)dismissKeyboard { // from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/741185/easy-way-to-dismiss-keyboard
UITextField *tempTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
UIViewController *myRootViewController = <#viewController#>; // for simple apps (INPUT: viewController is whatever your root controller is called. Probably is a way to determine this progragrammatically)
UIViewController *uivc;
if (myRootViewController.navigationController != nil) { // for when there is a nav stack
uivc = myRootViewController.navigationController;
} else {
uivc = myRootViewController;
}
if (uivc.modalViewController != nil) { // for when there is something modal
uivc = uivc.modalViewController;
}
[uivc.view addSubview:tempTextField];
[tempTextField becomeFirstResponder];
[tempTextField resignFirstResponder];
[tempTextField removeFromSuperview];
[tempTextField release];
}
You may also need to override UIViewController disablesAutomaticKeyboardDismissal to get this to work in some cases. This may have to be done on the UINavigationController if you have one.
Subclass your textfields... and also textviews
In the subclass put this code..
-(void)conformsToKeyboardDismissNotification{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(dismissKeyBoard) name:KEYBOARD_DISMISS object:nil];
}
-(void)deConformsToKeyboardDismissNotification{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:KEYBOARD_DISMISS object:nil];
}
- (void)dealloc{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
[self resignFirstResponder];
}
In the textfield delegates (similarly for textview delegates)
-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(JCPTextField *)textField{
[textField conformsToKeyboardDismissNotification];
}
- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(JCPTextField *)textField{
[textField deConformsToKeyboardDismissNotification];
}
All set.. Now just post the notification from anywhere in your code. It will resign any keyboard.
And in swift we can do
UIApplication.sharedApplication().sendAction("resignFirstResponder", to: nil, from: nil, forEvent: nil)
To dismiss a keyboard after the keyboard has popped up, there are 2 cases,
when the UITextField is inside a UIScrollView
when the UITextField is outside a UIScrollView
2.when the UITextField is outside a UIScrollView
override the method in your UIViewController subclass
you must also add delegate for all UITextView
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
In a scroll view, Tapping outside will not fire any event, so in that case use a Tap Gesture Recognizer,
Drag and drop a UITapGesture for the scroll view and create an IBAction for it.
to create a IBAction, press ctrl+ click the UITapGesture and drag it to the .h file of viewcontroller.
Here I have named tappedEvent as my action name
- (IBAction)tappedEvent:(id)sender {
[self.view endEditing:YES]; }
the abouve given Information was derived from the following link, please refer for more information or contact me if you dont understand the abouve data.
http://samwize.com/2014/03/27/dismiss-keyboard-when-tap-outside-a-uitextfield-slash-uitextview/
I hate that there's no "global" way to programmatically dismiss the keyboard without using private API calls. Frequently, I have the need to dismiss the keyboard programmatically without knowing what object is the first responder. I've resorted to inspecting the self using the Objective-C runtime API, enumerating through all of its properties, pulling out those which are of type UITextField, and sending them the resignFirstResponder message.
It shouldn't be this hard to do this...
It's not pretty, but the way I resign the firstResponder when I don't know what that the responder is:
Create an UITextField, either in IB or programmatically. Make it Hidden. Link it up to your code if you made it in IB.
Then, when you want to dismiss the keyboard, you switch the responder to the invisible text field, and immediately resign it:
[self.invisibleField becomeFirstResponder];
[self.invisibleField resignFirstResponder];
You can recursively iterate through subviews, store an array of all UITextFields, and then loop through them and resign them all.
Not really a great solution, especially if you have a lot of subviews, but for simple apps it should do the trick.
I solved this in a much more complicated, but much more performant way, but using a singleton/manager for the animation engine of my app, and any time a text field became the responder, I would assign assign it to a static which would get swept up (resigned) based on certain other events... its almost impossible for me to explain in a paragraph.
Be creative, it only took me 10 minutes to think through this for my app after I found this question.
A slightly more robust method I needed to use recently:
- (void) dismissKeyboard {
NSArray *windows = [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows;
for(UIWindow *window in windows) [window endEditing:true];
// Or if you're only working with one UIWindow:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow endEditing:true];
}
I found some of the other "global" methods didn't work (for example, UIWebView & WKWebView refused to resign).
Add A Tap Gesture Recognizer to your view.And define it ibaction
your .m file will be like
- (IBAction)hideKeyboardGesture:(id)sender {
NSArray *windows = [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows;
for(UIWindow *window in windows) [window endEditing:true];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow endEditing:true];
}
It's worked for me
Yes, endEditing is the best option. And From iOW 7.0, UIScrollView has a cool feature to dismiss the keyboard on interacting with the scroll view. For achieving this, you can set keyboardDismissMode property of UIScrollView.
Set the keyboard dismiss mode as:
tableView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag
It has few other types. Have a look at this apple document.
In swift :
self.view.endEditing(true)
the easist way is to call the method
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
if(![txtfld resignFirstResponder])
{
[txtfld resignFirstResponder];
}
else
{
}
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
You have to use one of these methods,
[self.view endEditing:YES];
or
[self.textField resignFirstResponder];