Question

In my app I have a view that is a form that has quite a few inputs.
When the UITextField calls textFieldDidBeginEditing, it checks the tag and will bring up a UIPopoverController or the keyboard depending on the what the input is meant to be.

If the keyboard is up, I need it disappear when the user presses a textfield that brings up the popover. However I cannot make it disappear, I have tried every way to get rid of the keyboard but it just stays there. I have tried:

• calling resignFirstResponder in textFieldDidEndEditing
• calling [self.view endEditing:YES] in textFieldDidEndEditing
• calling resignFirstResponder AND [self.view endEditing:YES] in textFieldDidBeginEditing checking for the previous tag is equal to a keyboard input text field.

Any ideas would be great.

I have ripped it out and and put it in a example project if anyone wants to see the exact behaviour.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61692457/KB_Test.zip

Answer 1

Declare a Global UITextField in .h file

UITextField *txtfld;

Replace Your method textFieldDidBeginEditing with textFieldShouldBeginEditing and now write this code

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField 
{

if (textField.tag == 1 || textField.tag==3)
{

    if(numPickerPopover == nil)
    {   

        numPicker = [[[NumPicker alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain] autorelease];

        numPicker.delegate = self;

        numPickerPopover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:numPicker];
        [numPickerPopover setPopoverContentSize:CGSizeMake(60.0, 260.0f)];
    }

    [numPickerPopover presentPopoverFromRect:textField.frame inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];

    [txtfld resignFirstResponder];
    return NO;
}


if (textField.tag == 2)

{

    txtfld = textField;

    return YES;
}

return YES;    

}