Question

I wanted to ask a quick question just to make sure I am not missing anything simple before I implement a more difficult method. I need to create a custom keyboard for an iPhone application. This I have already done by creating a view with the buttons, using a custom input view and it displays exactly like it should. Now most of the buttons are standard numbers which need to update a UITextField in the screen that called the keyboard. Does anyone know a simple way to do this? I assume there has to be a built in function that the keyboard uses to send the information but I haven’t been able to find any reference to it. Otherwise I will have to go the more difficult route. If anyone has a simple way to do this I would appreciate it. I haven’t worked with custom keyboards before.

Answer 1

You won’t be able to do it the same way that Apple does it, as their keyboard is basically an input device, globally.

I recommend you just append the data in your button press multiplex method. Here’s an example:

NSString *appendThisText = @"subtitle";
self.myTextView.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", self.myTextView.text, appendThisText];