Questions tagged [inputview]
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How to stop my Custom Keyboard from 'floating' or being undocked on iPad
I have a custom Keyboard that gets displayed for a certain UITextField when I set the textField's inputView to my KeyboardView. The keyboard works fantastically well but it has become apparent that the keyboard will 'float' if the user has…

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Prevent custom keyboard in textfield
I was experimenting with how a custom keyboard affects my app. I installed Swype on my iPhone 6.
I find that in some of my views where I have custom inputView property set on a text field, the Swype keyboard is overriding and presenting instead of…

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UITextField inputView displays undo, redo, paste buttons
I have created a custom inputView for my UITextField. The view itself looks and functions great, but on the iPad I'm getting undo, redo, and paste buttons above my custom inputView. How do I remove those buttons? They don't have any functionality,…

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Prevent editing of text in UITextField and hide cursor/caret/magnifying glass while using an inputView
How do I prevent the editing of text in a UITextField along with hiding the cursor/caret/magnifying glass, but still present the keyboard, as I am using an inputView with a UIPickerView/UIDatePickerView?
Setting userInteractionEnabled to NO does not…

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How do I activate an inputView using a UIButton in Swift?
I am attempting to have a UIDatePicker come up as a keyboard when the user hits a UIButton. I was able to get it to work with a textfield, but I don't like how the cursor is visible and the user could enter in any text if they had an external…

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How do I retrieve keystrokes from a custom keyboard on an iOS app?
I need to build a custom keyboard for my iPhone app. Previous questions and answers on the topic have focused on the visual elements of a custom keyboard, but I'm trying to understand how to retrieve the keystrokes from this keyboard.
Apple provides…

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Custom inputView for UITextField , how do I direct input back to the text field?
I have set a custom inputView to my UITextField. I need a way to display the data selected in my custom inputView in the UITextfield. I would like to achieve this the same way the system keyboard does it.
Does anyone know how this is done? How does…

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Custom Keyboard: inputView: how to change the Keyboard size?
I implemented the textfield with a custom keyboard with the "setInputView" function.
But i have a problem: my keyboard frame is not a standard iphone keybord frame.
The question is:
How can i change the size of my custom keyboard?
I know some…

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How to show keyboard after used inputView
I used inputView to show uipickerview for my textfield, but I use same textfield for other functions. How can I show standard keyboard after I used inputView for that textfield?
textfield.inputView = pickrView;

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Changing the inputview property of a UITextView from a custom view to nil leads to a crash
I believe I've come across a bug in iOS 7. When a UITextView is contained in a modal view, having its inputview property changed from a custom view to nil (in order to bring back the system keyboard) will cause the app to crash after the modal view…

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UItextView arabic text aligned to right
Using my custom arabic keyboard on UItextView inputView, I m filling my textView with the arabic text but cannot get the written text align to right....Need help to align text to right.
-(BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView{
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Swap out a custom inputView for the standard keyboard in iOS
I have a custom inputView for a particular textfield, and it works well. However, I cannot discern how to dismiss the view and get the regular keyboard back. (I have a SWAP button right next to the TextField.) I tried setting the textfield's…

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Keep a hardware (bluetooth) keyboard from overriding an inputView in iOS 8
I have a UITextField that uses a custom UIPickerView in its inputView to restrict the user to a few options, functioning analogous to a dropdown list. When used with a hardware keyboard connected via bluetooth, the hardware keyboard overrides (and…

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iOS - Dismiss UIDatePicker presented as inputView
I have a text field in my UI that when it's selected presents a UIDatePicker instead of the default keyboard, how could I set up a button as to dismiss the picker when the user is done?

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iOS UITextField- dismissing custom inputView
I am using a custom inputView for some textfield, however when i call resignFirstResponder on the textfield, the custom input view does not dismiss...any suggestions?
UITextField *f=[[UITextfield alloc] init];
UIView *view=[[UIView alloc]…

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