How can I bring keyboard to edit a field when a UIViewController is shown?

Question

I want to show the keyboard just after a view controller is being pushed to start editing a specific UITextField.

I believe that I should manually fire the event on the ViewDidAppear.

Which is the proper way of doing such tasks?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:11

3

To make keyboard appear you need to manually set your text field as a first responder:

[textField becomeFirstResponder];

It can be called either in viewWillAppear: or in viewDidAppear: method - whichever provides best behaviour for you.

answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:11

Vladimir

`viewDidAppear` if you want to start editing just after the views got displayed. – rckoenes Aug 02 '11 at 08:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:35

1

for that you need IBOutlet UITextFiled *yourTextField;

- (void)viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated or viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
  [yourTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}

answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:35

Maulik

Don't forget to call [super viewWillAppear/didAppear:animated] - just in case – Vladimir Aug 02 '11 at 08:47

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