How to define textField as firstResponder from View rather than ViewController

[cybohemia]

I'm creating an application that uses one overall ViewController. It has one view and that one view has a number of subviews. There is no NavigationController.

In a couple of subviews, there are textfields. When a particular subview is brought to the front, I'd like the first textfield in that subview become the First Responder and, when the user is done, for it to relinquish that status.

I tried just adding the <UITextFieldDelegate> interface to the View but it seems to be ignoring the textFieldShouldReturn method when I press Done on the keyboard.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[cybohemia]

Ah - I figured it out.

In case anyone's interested, I just needed to define everything (that is, the textfield properties) from the top ViewController through the views...

I guess that is sort of obvious now that I think about it although I'm not sure why it eluded me for forty-five minutes...

[hondo]

Originally Posted by cybohemia

Ah - I figured it out.

In case anyone's interested, I just needed to define everything (that is, the textfield properties) from the top ViewController through the views...

I guess that is sort of obvious now that I think about it although I'm not sure why it eluded me for forty-five minutes...

Adding <UITextFieldDelegate> makes the keyboard pop up automatically? If this does work, can you post the code for this section?

Thanks!

[RickMaddy]

No, adding <UITextFieldDelegate> to a class definition simple states that the class conforms to the UITextFieldDelegate protocol. It does nothing to make the keyboard appear.

[meowmix23F]

just call

[referenceToTextView becomeFirstResponder];