Hide keyboard but show cursor

Question

How can i hide keyboard but show cursor for textfiled?

@hydrogen: I've not yet managed to move an iPhone's keybord, can you please explain, how you'd archieved this? I'm just curious ;) — fuz, Sep 07 '10 at 06:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 11 '12 at 15:13

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I got it!

You can set uitextfieldView.inputView = [[UIView new] autorelease]; the system keyboard view not show again and keep the cursor!

edited Jan 11 '12 at 15:13

sra

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answered Aug 26 '11 at 08:56

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

You need to move the frame of the keyboard. Your app may be rejected if you try this (it's not using standard API calls). Here's some code:

- (void)hideKeyboard 
{
  for (UIWindow *keyboardWindow in [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows]) {

    // Now iterating over each subview of the available windows
    for (UIView *keyboard in [keyboardWindow subviews]) {

      // Check to see if the view we have referenced is UIKeyboard.
      // If so then we found the keyboard view that we were looking for.
      if([[keyboard description] hasPrefix:@"<UIKeyboard"] == YES) {

        // animate the keyboard moving
        CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
        [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:context];
        [UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
        [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.4];

        // remove the keyboard
        CGRect frame = keyboard.frame;
        // if (keyboard.frame.origin.x >= 0) {
        if (keyboard.frame.origin.y < 480) {
          // slide the keyboard onscreen
          //frame.origin.x = (keyboard.frame.origin.x - 320);

          // slide the keyboard onscreen
          frame.origin.y = (keyboard.frame.origin.y + 264);
          keyboard.frame = frame;
        }
        else {
          // slide the keyboard off to the side
          //frame.origin.x = (keyboard.frame.origin.x + 320);

          // slide the keyboard off
          frame.origin.y = (keyboard.frame.origin.y - 264);
          keyboard.frame = frame;
        }

        [UIView commitAnimations];
      }
    }
  }
}

It's not using private APIs either. The only part that might be debatable is _hasPrefix:@" — Kheldar, Aug 26 '11 at 10:14
It doesn't use private APIs, but walking through the view hierarchy is generally a bad idea, since Apple can change it at some point without warning. I'm not sure if the App Store people check for this sort of thing though. — nevan king, Aug 26 '11 at 12:59

Hide keyboard but show cursor

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