uisearchbar anyway to set cancel , search button text?

[turinreza]

UISearchBar...

have an iboutlet.. want to replace the Cancel button's text with something else
and the search button on the keyboard with other text..

tia

[halusha]

I am looking for a way to set the text of the Search button on the keyboard when using a UISearchBar. Unfortunately UISearchBar doesn't have a returnKeyType property like UITextField does.

[halusha]

I just filed an enhancement request (assigned Problem ID: 6022261) for UISearchBar to adopt the UITextInputTraits protocol. According to the UITextInputTraits documentation: "All objects that support keyboard input must adopt this protocol." This would let me set the return key type.

I don't think that would help you with the Cancel button text though.

[rakuraku]

Here's a solution:
Do not use the cancel button with UISearchBar
Add a button on the navigation bar to do job.
This is what Apple does in their Addresses.app

[Jume]

Originally Posted by rakuraku

Here's a solution:
Do not use the cancel button with UISearchBar
Add a button on the navigation bar to do job.
This is what Apple does in their Addresses.app

I'm doing it like this. Any idea on how to make the UISearchBar keyboard go away when my custom cancel button is clicked?

Thx,
Jume

[PhoneyDeveloper]

	[searchBar resignFirstResponder];

[Jume]

Originally Posted by PhoneyDeveloper

	[searchBar resignFirstResponder];

I tried this but doesn't work

[sophisti]

Originally Posted by rakuraku

Here's a solution:
Do not use the cancel button with UISearchBar
Add a button on the navigation bar to do job.
This is what Apple does in their Addresses.app

This is how you show the cancel button btw:

searchBar.showsCancelButton = YES;

[Poatface]

A good way to dismiss the keyboard regardless of the context is to call this method:

[self.view endEditing:YES];

I often create a quick void method in my view controllers which calls this code, and then I can easily dismiss the keyboard whenever I need to. (The "YES" being passed into the method is a boolean for whether or not the method should "force quit" whatever editing mode it tries to close if it is met with resistance.)