Hide my decimal pad when touching another interactive component

Question

I have a decimal pad that appears after I pressed a UIButton.

I have overridden touchesBegan method like the following:

override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
    self.view.endEditing(true)
}

It works fine as long as for example I don't press another UIButton for example.

My question: is there a way to make my decimal pad disappear other than to make it disappear when I am handling the other UIButton's action? Like if I have 10 other UIButton, it would be a bit annoying to specify every time "of by the way, before you execute your code, check if by any chance the decimal pad is hidden or not"

do it using a tap recognizer. in its delegate you can exclude specific areas, e.g. buttons. — Sulthan, May 17 '15 at 07:02
Could you please tell me more? Where should I add the tap recognizer? — Nico, May 17 '15 at 07:10
Looks similar to your question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5306240/iphone-dismiss-keyboard-when-touching-outside-of-uitextfield — Renfei Song, May 17 '15 at 11:47
No actually I spoke too quickly, it doesn't work (on my `UISegmentedControl` or on my ``UIButton`) — Nico, May 17 '15 at 12:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '15 at 11:34

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What are you using the DecimalPad for? If you are entering details in a text box the following will dismiss the keyboard (You will need to make your class a delegate of UITextField)

-(BOOL) textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField*) textField {
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

(objective c, not familiar with Swift notation)

answered May 17 '15 at 11:34

mikejl

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Yes I do it as well but it doesn't work if I click on a button or a segment control. What do you mean what I use it for? I need it to input some numbers. – Nico May 17 '15 at 11:38
Sorry, my mistake - there is no return key on a numeric keypad. have a look at this post which shows how to add a toolbar above the keyboard, so you can add your own 'Done' button to dismiss the keyboard [how-to-add-toolbar-above-keyboard](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23904848/how-to-add-toolbar-above-keyboard) – mikejl May 17 '15 at 16:36
I did add a return key already. I want to be able to dismiss it by clicking anywhere else as well – Nico May 17 '15 at 21:52

Hide my decimal pad when touching another interactive component

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