how to dismiss a UIPickerView in ios

Question

In my app, i have pickerviews in my add contact page. I have given the following 'touchesBegan' method. But it dismisses the picker even when i click on a value to set. For example, if i click 'homephone' from preferred phone picker, the picker gets dismissed instead of setting the value. i need the picker to be dismissed only if i click outside the picker. Can anyone help me in fixing this.

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
 [self.AddView endEditing:YES];
}

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '13 at 09:39

You can use

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
  UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
  if ([touch view] != pickerview)
     [self.AddView endEditing:YES];
}

this will be used to endedit when the touch is outside the picker view

BlackSheep · Answer 2 · 2013-07-04T09:37:59.473

2

In your code:

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

 [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

}

Or You can put a bigger button under the PickerView, make it color clear custom and dimension full screen, then use the dismiss inside a (IBAction) and when you tap outside the picker your view is dismissed

- (IBAction)buttonClear:(id)sender {

[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

}

edited Jul 04 '13 at 09:37

answered Jul 04 '13 at 09:23

BlackSheep

1,087
12
29

put a bigger button under the PickerView, make it color clear custom and dimension full screen, then use the dismiss inside a (IBAction) and when you tap outside the picker your view is dismissed ;) i add a code on my post – BlackSheep Jul 04 '13 at 09:37

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '13 at 09:34

try this code:

UITapGestureRecognizer *single_tap_recognizer;

    single_tap_recognizer = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                              initWithTarget : self.view
                              action         : @selector(upper_button_view_tapped)]
                             autorelease];

    [single_tap_recognizer setNumberOfTouchesRequired : 1];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer : single_tap_recognizer];

-(void)upper_button_view_tapped
{
 [self .view endEditing:YES];
}

Hope it help You

how to dismiss a UIPickerView in ios

3 Answers3