Question

I would like to hide the UISearchBar most of the time and only call it to appear when user wants it.

I’ve put a UISearchBar in Interface Builder and hide it behind a view, when user click a button, it calls the following code, which I hoped it would bring the search bar to the front and slide the keyboard to view. But it doesn’t….

- (IBAction)search:(id)sender {    [mySearchBar performSelector:@selector(searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:)]; } 

Anyone have any idea how to activate UISearchBar by code?

Thanks.

Thanks for your replies. I just post the complete code in case someone’s interested

- (IBAction)search:(id)sender {     mySearchBar.hidden = NO;     [mySearchBar becomeFirstResponder]; }  #pragma mark UISearchBarDelegate delegate methods  // called when keyboard search button pressed - (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {     mySearchBar.hidden = YES;     [mySearchBar resignFirstResponder]; // Do something with the mySearchBar.text }  // called when cancel button pressed - (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {     mySearchBar.hidden = YES;      [mySearchBar resignFirstResponder]; } 

Answer 1

If you want to pop the keyboard, you’ll need to call [mySearchBar becomeFirstResponder]