iPhone - possible to not show keyboard but still show the cursor in a UITextField?

Question

I have a custom keyboard I want to show when the user taps a UITextField. But at the same time I want to show the cursor in the textfield. If if return a NO for canBecomeFirstResponder, it doesn't show the default keyboard but doesn't show the cursor either.

Can someone please help me out?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The answer to your problem is to create a view for your custom keyboard and then edit the inputView property of your UITextField and pass it the view for your custom keyboard.

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

override following two methods in UITextFieldDelegate. Note that this approach is valid for both UITextField and UITextView (in which case you override corresponding methods in UITextViewDelegate)

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    if (!textField.inputView) {
        //hides the keyboard, but still shows the cursor to allow user to view entire text, even if it exceeds the bounds of the textfield
        textField.inputView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    }
    return YES;
}

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