ios7 textfield shouldchangecharactersinrange is not called when a word is selected from autocorrection bar

Question

UITextField shouldChangeCharactersInRange delegate method is not called when a word is selected from autocorrection bar with simplified Chinese keyboard. When I type 'ni hao', this delegate method gets called for each character, but when I selected a word from autocorrect suggestion bar this delegate method is not called. This is only happening in iOS 7 with simplified chinese, it is working fine with japanese keyboard. I want to do my application specific action when selecting the word. Any help is much appreciated.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '13 at 06:21

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I meet the same issue today. I fixed it as below:

Don't use delegate, just use Notification:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(textChanged:) name:UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification object:nil];

answered Nov 28 '13 at 06:21

AnkyHe

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I tried this, but its not worked for me,What you implemented in textChanged event.? please tell me more about your implementation it will be helpful for me. – Sabareesh Jan 17 '14 at 11:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '14 at 10:56

I encountered this issue, too. Thanks to @AnkyHe 's solution. Here is my implemention.

In the ViewController which hold your UITextField:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(textChanged:)
                                                 name:UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification
                                               object:nil];
}

- (void)textChanged:(NSNotification *)notif
{
    UITextField *editingTextField = (UITextField *)notif.object;
    NsLog(@"changed textL %@", editingTextField.text);
}

Make sure you call `removeObserver` in the `dealloc` method of the view controller. — rmaddy, May 02 '16 at 22:56

ios7 textfield shouldchangecharactersinrange is not called when a word is selected from autocorrection bar

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