Question

Can you catch TextField events when a Touch happens? So far I didn’t see the Touch event get registered to TextField. For example,

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

{
UITouch *touch = [event allTouches] anyObject;

if (touch view == TextFieldView) {
do somthing.....
}

This a dummy code what I want to implement is I want a method that get fired when user touches the text field for some period.
If yes than how???

Enlighten me on this.

Thnx in advance.

Answer 1

I just tested this by writing a subclass of UITextField subclass that captures touches.

@interface TouchTestTextField : UITextField {}
@end

#import "TouchTestTextField.h"
@implementation TouchTestTextField

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
    NSLog(@"touchesBegan");
    NSLog(@"touches=%@,event=%@",touches,event);
}

@end

It easily captures touches and shows the text field as the view of the touch.