disabling keyboard in UITextField

What do you want to happen instead? If disable user interaction, then nothing will happen. Do you want to still have a blinking cursor, but no keyboard?

Id like to know how to dismiss the KB that appears at all!
I have a text field, the user taps it, enters text and hits "Done" but the KB wont go away.
How do I detect the "done" button press, and what command dismisses the KB?

you missed out the other stuff you need:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
// watch the keyboard so we can adjust the user interface if necessary.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:)
name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:self.view.window];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self setEditing:NO animated:YES];

// unregister for keyboard notifications while not visible.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
}

I have the same problem. I tried this technique to no avail. I did it the hard way by using UILabel instead with my custom keyboard. Now I have to do even more work, I think, to get the rounded rectangle look of the UITextField.

What about returning NO from 'textFieldShouldBeginEditing:' (from UITextFieldDelegate). I haven't tried but this may keep the keyboard away.

How about playing with the responder class?

becomeFirstResponder
Notifies the receiver that it’s about to become first responder in its window.
- (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder
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The default implementation returns YES, accepting first responder status. Subclasses can override
this method to update state or perform some action such as highlighting the selection, or to return
NO, refusing first responder status.

If you return NO, then perhaps you can bring up your own keyboard.

However I expect you will not get the blinking cursor...

michael golden

Hi!!!

I have the same problem. Does anyone know how can I do that?

thanks.

I would try subclassing UITextField and overriding the touchesBegan method to a method that does nothing.

Each experiment fails! Can someone help me?

for disabling textField try it.....

UITextField object.enabled = NO;

it works......

Hello

I tried successfully implementing following delegate function:

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
// do anything you want before, than:
return NO;
}

this function prevents the keyboard from showing up... OK?

Cheers & God bless