get cursor on textfield

Question

I need to get the cursor in textfiled but on the textfileddidbeginEditing i have to open the picker view for selection , so for that reason i need to resignFirtsresponder to the textfield ,inorder that picker view is visible .But by doing this the cursor gets disabled as i open the picker (and the keyboard gets hide by resignFirst responder).I want to show the cursor as because when user cliks on partilcuar textfield so by that cursor he can track on which textfield he is making the selection.

Hope i am clear with my question.

Can't you not track the textfield before you dismiss the keyboard using resignFirstResponder? — Praveen S, Jul 22 '11 at 06:52
ya i can track that but i need to hide that keyboard because i need to show the picker. — mrugen munshi, Jul 22 '11 at 06:54
Yeah so when the picker is selected you can use it to fill the textfield you have tracked. — Praveen S, Jul 22 '11 at 06:57
i dont need to color that i just need to show a cursor without the keyboard. — mrugen munshi, Jul 22 '11 at 07:01
Went through this link and it helped http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1476260/how-to-make-a-blinking-or-flashing-cursor-on-iphone — mrugen munshi, Jul 22 '11 at 07:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '11 at 07:21

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if you want the picker instead of keyboard, set the text fields inputView as the picker... so when you tap the text field the picker will pop up like keyboard and the textfield will show the cursor too.. no need to dismiss the keyboard and then show the picker..

answered Jul 22 '11 at 07:21

Swapnil Luktuke

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thanks that help me a lot ...was just one line of code and that really ruined my 2 hrs.. – mrugen munshi Jul 22 '11 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '11 at 07:05

If I understand your problem right, this is just an usability problem. I think you can solve this if you just add some other mechanism for showing the user which textfield is in editing-mode.

For example add an text-color to the TextField. If the user disable the UIPickerView set the text-color back to the normal state.

get cursor on textfield

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