Question

Does anyone know of a way to utilize the iPhone’s hardware keyboard with something other than a UITextView/Field, basically I want to be able to send characters pressed on the virtual keyboard to my own view. If anyone can help me out that’d be immensely appreciated!!

Answer 1

I’ve done this by using a hidden text field. Not incredibly elegant but it works, basically on whatever event you want to show the keyboard for you call

[myHiddenTextField becomeFirstResponder];

then monitor the input using the text field’s text property, register for the event to let you know when something has been typed

[myHiddenTextField addTarget:self action:@selector(processKeyboardInput:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingChanged];