How to freeze the editing of textfield?

Question

I have taken a textField in a tableView. I want the user cant be able to edit the content of textField but can copy the contents.

I used the method textField.editing = false; but it also disable the copying feature.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920541/enable-copy-and-paste-on-uitextfield-without-making-it-editable — Retro, Jul 01 '14 at 09:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 09:38

1

Use textField:shouldChangeCharactersInRange:replacementString

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    return NO;
}

Don't forget to set your textfield's delegate.

answered Jul 01 '14 at 09:38

tgyhlsb

i also want keyboard dont pop up on its selection. I have made the textFields private to the cell so cant use resignFirstResponder in textfieldShoulReturn method.Any other way? – user3792582 Jul 01 '14 at 09:58
maybe [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3175849/prevent-default-keyboard-from-showing-when-uitextfield-is-pressed) will work. Try it with myInputView=nil or a fake view – tgyhlsb Jul 01 '14 at 10:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 09:41

To disable editing in UITextField you need to return NO in delegate method

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
    return NO;
}

or you can do this also To disable editing in UITextView set property editable to NO:

[textView setEditable:NO];

gunas · Answer 3 · 2014-07-01T10:11:11.013

0

you can use this in viewwillappear method.

[textfield setEnable:NO];

edited Jul 01 '14 at 10:11

answered Jul 01 '14 at 10:05

gunas

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