Question

I have a text field entry in my view that I would like to block access to during a background operation. I’ve tried using the editable property, which successfully blocks access during the background operation, but the moment I set editable to YES, the keyboard comes up and the textfield becomes the first responder. Dismissing the keyboard just after changing editable doesn’t do anything:

// Broken code
textView.editable = YES;
[textView resignFirstResponder];

I’ve thought about adding a clear UIView that just blocks access to the UITextView after dismissing the keyboard, but that seems like overkill. Is there a correct way to handle this?

Just so people don’t have to read farther than the selected answer: It turns out that this is a “known issue” in the SDK, and you can find it listed in the release notes. Using userInteractionEnabled performs the same function, as long as you make sure to dismiss the keyboard yourself.

Answer 1

Try textView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;