Question

I am trying to find a way to prevent the keyboard from appearing when the user taps on a TextField but could`t find a way to do it.

I tried this code after I linked my textField to delegate and still it did not work for me, the code was logging but the keyboard did appear.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField { 
    NSLog(@"BeginEditing");
    return YES;
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
}

When I return with NO I lose the focus from the textField, which I need.

The textFields I have are filled with values from a buttons on the same view, thats why I don’t want the keyboard to appear, and at the same time I want the user to select the textField they want to fill.

Answer 1

if you just want user to select the textfield to fill and does not want to keyboard to show up then you can do the following:

• add tag to your textfields
• change the code to this:

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField 
{
    selectedTextFieldTag = textField.tag;
    return NO;
}

use selectedTextField value to identify which textfield to fill in your code. return NO will not allow keyboard to appear.