Keyboard + Text Field/View

cotton · 07-14-2010, 04:47 PM

Hey guys,

Let me thank you in advance for your responses. Right now I have my application linked to remotely input text via the keyboard to another device. I have a UIButton which displays the keyboard, but I would also like it to display a Text Field or Text View. In theory, the text field is to just display the input values of the keyboard while the application also sends this text remotely. Any thoughts how to have the UIButton show both the keyboard and a text field and link those two together?

Thanks!

bytor99999 · 07-14-2010, 06:57 PM

Why are you using a UIButton to be more than just a button?

In OO terms you are lowering you cohesion in that class, meaning adding responsibilities to a class that just shouldn't be responsible for. Why not have a UIView and add subviews to it to get the entire screen with UI widgets that you want all in it, and a ViewController to act as the code behind it?

UIButton inherits from UIView to support button specific stuff only.

Mark