Question

I have a table and in one of the cells I keep a UITextView. When the user taps it the keyboard appears. I was trying various ways to get rid of it. My first approach was to detect a tap on the table cell of the UITextView, but since the text view takes most of it, it’s not suitable. Then I tried to add a button to the toolbar and whenever the user presses it, the keybord disappears with resignFirstResponder, but it won’t work. It seems that only when I’m in the same view as the UITextView resignFirstResponder works. So how can I get rid of the keyboard from a different view?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The method below uses the Return Key to dismiss the UITextView Keyboard.

In your Controller, set the UITextView’s Delegate to self
like this:

myTextView.delegate=self;

Then add this method:

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range 
 replacementText:(NSString *)text
{
 // Any new character added is passed in as the "text" parameter
 if ([text isEqualToString:@"\n"]) {
  // Be sure to test for equality using the "isEqualToString" message
  [textView resignFirstResponder];

  // Return FALSE so that the final '\n' character doesn't get added
  return FALSE;
 }
 // For any other character return TRUE so that the text gets added to the view
 return TRUE;
}

This should work if you’re not using the Return key as a true Return key (e.g. adding new line).