Add button to right of UITextField

[garyk1968]

I have been scouring the net to try and implement a plus (+) button in a UITextField. I know I need to set the rightView to a view containing this button but all the examples I have seen create a custom UIImageView which then gets set. I could go this way but found this code;

[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeContactAdd];

but can't see how you assign it as UITextField rightView expects a type of UIView. If I have to go the rightView = [[UImageView alloc] initWithImage... I will but thought this way would be more straightforward and I'm to keen to understand it more.

Can anyone give me some pointers?


Cheers

Gary

[Scenario]

Originally Posted by garyk1968

I have been scouring the net to try and implement a plus (+) button in a UITextField. I know I need to set the rightView to a view containing this button but all the examples I have seen create a custom UIImageView which then gets set. I could go this way but found this code;

[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeContactAdd];

but can't see how you assign it as UITextField rightView expects a type of UIView. If I have to go the rightView = [[UImageView alloc] initWithImage... I will but thought this way would be more straightforward and I'm to keen to understand it more.

Can anyone give me some pointers?


Cheers

Gary

I'm stumped on the same issue tonight. I need to toggle between Refresh and Cancel buttons and don't know how to set a target and action on a UIView versus a system button. I also don't want to have to hack my own icon images to mimic the system ones.

Why can't we just make a system button and add it as the view?

[harrytheshark]

You could try adding the button as a subview to the UITextField.

[Scenario]

Well the trick is to use a UIButton with an image:

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
	[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"RefreshIcon.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
	[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"RefreshIcon.png"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
	button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -16, 0, 0);
	[button addTarget:self action:@selector(refresh:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
	addressBar.rightView = button;
	addressBar.rightViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;