Telling a UITextField to become first responder while embedded in a UITableViewCell

Question

I have a UITextField that is a subview of a UITableViewCell.

When my view loads, I want the text field to become first responder. I have a pointer to the text field in the table cell, so to do this I am trying:

[myTextField becomeFirstResponder]; 

This returns NO all the time, regardless of when it's called, which according to the docs means the text field refused to become first responder... What am I doing wrong?

Edit:

The textfield properly responds to being touched. It bring up the keyboard then. It's only when telling it to becomefirstresponder programmatically that the problem happens.

Answer 1

It turned out that the text field was nil when I was trying to send it first responder. Sending becomeFirstResponder later in the life cycle worked.