UITextView keyboard

[Fastrak]

I have a UIView with a UITextView as a subview. I want the keyboard to appear automatically with the view and call

[textView becomeFirstResponder]

but this does not work AND for some reason, it then takes 2 presses to get the keyboard to show. If I do not make the first responder call, 1 press will make the keyboard appear.

This same technique works correctly for a UITextField.

Am I missing something obvious?

[iPhoneGuy]

Where are you calling this from? I am using it with no problem in the loadView()

[textField becomeFirstResponder];
[self.view addSubview:textField];

[Fastrak]

Originally Posted by iPhoneGuy

Where are you calling this from? I am using it with no problem in the loadView()

[textField becomeFirstResponder];
[self.view addSubview:textField];

TextField works fine for me as well. The problem I am having is when I try this with a UITextView.

[paos]

I have the same problem, it takes two or more presses to appear , did somebody found a solution? :?:

[cmezak]

I'm having this problem, too. when I add a becomeFirstResponder message before I add the textView to the viewController's view, the view loads with a cursor in the textView, but with no keyboard. No tapping will bring the keyboard up, either. Here's my code:

notesTextView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 400)];
notesTextView.text = [sighting notes];
notesTextView.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:20];
notesTextView.delegate = self;
notesTextView.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
[notesTextView setReturnKeyType:UIReturnKeyDone];
[notesTextView becomeFirstResponder];
[self.view addSubview:notesTextView];

Also, I've set the keyboard's return key type to Done, but the key still adds a newline rather than telling the textView to resign first responder. If I am supposed to handle this manually, how so?

Thanks
Charlie

[DevTeamOfOne]

Submit it as a bug.

[cmezak]

If this is a bug, wouldn't we have heard more noise about it? Editing a textView is a pretty common task, I should think.

I'm going to seek out some sample code that could put me on the right track.

- Charlie

[DevTeamOfOne]

adding it as a first responder, however, may have been less important.

And there are also massive bugs in the 2.0 SDK anyway...

[mzapp]

The is a known bug that I filed a while ago under Bug ID# 5944064. At least now I can mention it...

Michael

[BostonMerlin]

Anyone figure this out? I have all the same settings as those from the OP. Just want to that darn keyboard to show up with my view is displayed. UITextView is already set as firstresponder and when the view is shown my cursor is sitting in the TextView but no keyboard.

Anyone?

[mzapp]

Originally Posted by BostonMerlin

Anyone figure this out? I have all the same settings as those from the OP. Just want to that darn keyboard to show up with my view is displayed. UITextView is already set as firstresponder and when the view is shown my cursor is sitting in the TextView but no keyboard.

Anyone?

There's no work around, you simply have to wait until Apple fixes it. Hopefully that will be really soon now. You might want to look around at the iPhone developer website...

[rendezvouscp]

I’m not the only one! This bug has been driving me insane and I haven’t been able to figure out a workaround.

[mcurtis]

I've found that I can make this work if I place the call to -becomeFirstResponder in -viewDidAppear: instead of -loadView or -viewWillAppear:.

[jdg]

Hey guys,

Found a workaround. I really do not recommend doing this -- as the workaround relies on another bug, and there's no stopgap so that if that bug is fixed, the keyboard will show up by default.

Remove all becomeFirstResponder's for the UITextView, then in your viewDidAppear, set editable to NO, then set editable to YES:

UITextView *utv;
utv.editable = NO;
utv.editable = YES;

... which makes it work for me (in a modal controller).

[BostonMerlin]

Originally Posted by jdg

Hey guys,

Found a workaround. I really do not recommend doing this -- as the workaround relies on another bug, and there's no stopgap so that if that bug is fixed, the keyboard will show up by default.

Remove all becomeFirstResponder's for the UITextView, then in your viewDidAppear, set editable to NO, then set editable to YES:

UITextView *utv;
utv.editable = NO;
utv.editable = YES;

... which makes it work for me (in a modal controller).

I found that this code works on the device but not in the simulator (2.1)... which for me is just fine for now. thanks!

John

[vijayeta]

[notesTextView setReturnKeyType:UIReturnKeyDone];

it still adds a new line and doesnt dismiss the keyboard.

[rnieves]

Has anyone notices that using becomeFirstResponder on the UITextView to make it load with the keyboard causes a leak ?

Anybody know any workaround to this?

[scotopia]

Originally Posted by rnieves

Has anyone notices that using becomeFirstResponder on the UITextView to make it load with the keyboard causes a leak ?

Anybody know any workaround to this?

I've noticed; got the same thing.