Creating a custom keyboard

[ipoduplink]

I've spent hours looking for a solution to this problem, but to no avail. All I want to do is add a decimal point to the usual number pad keyboard. I have tried adding a key was a subview to the UIKeyboard, but that didnt seem to work. So basically what im doing is having my own keyboard made of UIButons. What i want to do is intersept the keyboard before it shows, and keep it from apperaring. I want to use

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(stopKeyboard:) 
                                                 name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification
                                               object:nil];

But i have no idea what to do in

-(void)stopKeyboard {//intercept and stop keyboard}

Any ideas?

[TapTouchClick]

There was a thread on here with a solution to this. Try searching around for decimal and number pad. HTH

[Batman]

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/ip...-keyboard.html

[ipoduplink]

Hi and thanks for your responses. I read through that thread, and it seems to be saying that this method will result in a warning email from Apple waking you to take your app down. All I want to do is know how to keep the keyboard from appearing so that I can show my own.

[ipoduplink]

Ok I sort of solved this. What I had to do was keep the text field from returning true when textFieldShouldBeginEditing is called. Then I used beginAnimations:context: to scroll my keyboard onto the screen. All the buttons on the keyboard called a method that added their character to the active UITextField, which I changed whenever the user clicked on a new one. The one drawback to this way is that the textfield is never editing, so you dont get the little blinking bar. I just changed the background color whenever the user clicked on one. Hope this helps someone else.

[stonebreaker]

Originally Posted by ipoduplink

Ok I sort of solved this. What I had to do was keep the text field from returning true when textFieldShouldBeginEditing is called. Then I used beginAnimations:context: to scroll my keyboard onto the screen. All the buttons on the keyboard called a method that added their character to the active UITextField, which I changed whenever the user clicked on a new one. The one drawback to this way is that the textfield is never editing, so you dont get the little blinking bar. I just changed the background color whenever the user clicked on one. Hope this helps someone else.

I would really appreciate a sample project with this code. Do you have one? Thanks.

[StatCoder]

I used this solution to add a decimal point to the numeric keypad. It's pretty simple and it works:

iPhone: Number Pad with a decimal point (OS 3.0, OS 4.0) using public API devedup.com

[cye]

try this:

- (void)viewDidLoad {

	CGRect accessFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
	dumbView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:accessFrame];
	text.inputView = dumbView;
	[textview becomeFirstResponder];
    [super viewDidLoad];
}

that should stop the defualt keyboard from showing up