Easy way to disable a UITextField?

Question

Is there an easy way to disable a UITextField in code?

My app has 12 UITextField that are all turned on by default, but when a change is detected in my Segment Control I want to disable some of the UITextField depending on what Segment the user picks.

Just need to know how to disable it or make it non-editable?

Thanks

Answer 1

In Objective-C:

textField.enabled = NO; 

In Swift:

textField.isEnabled = false 

Reference: UIControl.isEnabled

Answer 2

If you also want to indicate that the text field is disabled you should add more code:

if using UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect, you can only gray out text:

textField.enabled = NO; textField.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor]; 

if using any other style, you can also gray out background:

textField.enabled = NO; textField.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];