Elegant way to swap keyboard for UIDatePicker in UISearchBar and UISearchDisplayController

Question

I know about this way UISearchBar with InputView

But I want to know if there is a "proper" way to do this at all? A better way than what appears to be a hack above, and there is obviously no guarantee that that will work in future versions of the iOS SDK.

I have a search bar, with a segmented control (scopes) and on one of the scopes I want to display a date picker instead of the keyboard. The inputView property is not accessible for a standard UISearchBar, so is there some other way of doing this?

Many thanks

Tom

Adeel Pervaiz · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-26T12:23:36.677

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Only in 2 Points, First Track the selected Scope Secondly, Whenever your desired scope is selected then Resign the Keyboard and show the Picker. Maybe this code will help you.

#pragma mark - UISearchBarDelegate
- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndexDidChange:(NSInteger)selectedScope{
    // Track the Scope Selection    
    selectedSearchType = selectedScope ;
}


- (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {

   if(selectedSearchType=="Scope_which_will_expose_picker"){
     // Show Picker Here
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
   }
    return YES;
}

edited Nov 26 '12 at 12:23

answered Nov 23 '12 at 18:27

Adeel Pervaiz

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Cool, thanks! :) I'll try this out today and see how it goes. – Thomas Clayson Nov 26 '12 at 09:01
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oh man its so much more complicated than you could ever imagine... but I'm figuring it out. You can have the answer, because its on the right track. – Thomas Clayson Nov 26 '12 at 11:15

Elegant way to swap keyboard for UIDatePicker in UISearchBar and UISearchDisplayController

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