how to popup default iphone keyboard on a button click

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Hi When we click on a UITextField or UITextView, a default keyboard pops up from the bottom of iphone screen. I want iphone keyboard to appear on a button click, and then handle the keys as typed on keyboard... How can i do that?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 07:30

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Add touchupinside event on button and call becomeFirstResponder method for textview or textfield it will call pop up keyboard. see the following code-

-(IBAction)buttonClicktoModalView:(id)sender{
[textView becomeFirstResponder];
}

answered Mar 07 '11 at 07:30

Mayur Birari

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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I was searching my problem, and came across the following stackoverflow link which answers my question

How to pull up a UIKeyboard without a UITextField or UITextView?

Thank you

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Mar 07 '11 at 07:28

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Pls go through this

iphone keyboard without textview

Hope this helps

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Mar 07 '11 at 07:29

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how to popup default iphone keyboard on a button click

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