tying UISearch bar into an IBAction

[aaronbastian]

Hi all,

To let you know from the beginning, I am a newbie at iPhone development, and I have taken an a monstrous task.

First of all, I am writing an application that allows to you to online shop. We have an affiliate account with a known online shopping website, are trying to tie our app into searching that site, and putting the results into a table, with hyperlinks to the site, etc.

But first problems first, one thing at a time:

In Interface Builder, I have a Search Bar, and an outlet connected to the search bar. I also have an IBAction made just to take the text that is entered into the search bar, storing it into a variable, and then searching this website (yes, that's a lot of stuff for an action).

Because I am so new at this process with IB, how do I connect the Search Bar with the IBAction? I know, stupid question.

[baja_yu]

I'm assuming the IBAction method and the IBOutlet property (searchbar) are declared in the same class/viewcontroller. If so, simply use the name that you've given to the property.

For example, if you did

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UISearchBar *searchBar;

within your method you can use, for example, [searchBar text] to get the text.

[aaronbastian]

Thanks for the help, guys! I do think that I am still missing something rather crucial. I visited the iOS Application Programming guide, and this is what I have in the implementation file.

- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar SelectedScopeButtonIndexDidChange:(NSInteger)selectedScope{ }

- (BOOL)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text{ }

- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText{ }

- (void)searchBarBookmarkButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (void)searchBarResultsListButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ 
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:chetSearchResults animated:YES]; //load the Search Results for Chet in a new NIB file

}

- (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (BOOL)searchBarShouldEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

- (void)searchBarTextDidEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)chetSearchBar{ }

Any insight?

[baja_yu]

Does your class (view controller) adopt the UISearchBarDelegate protocol in its declaration?

[aaronbastian]

Originally Posted by baja_yu

Does your class (view controller) adopt the UISearchBarDelegate protocol in its declaration?

I think so, but then again, I am not sure (too new).
In Interface Builder, connections tab on File's Owner, I have the following connections:

Outlets:
chetSearchBar - Search Bar
searchDisplayController - Search Display Controller
view - View
webResults - tableViewController
webView - Web View

Referenceing Outlets:
delegate - Search Display Controller
delegate - Search Bar
searchContentsController - Search Display Controller


But I am with you on it being something in IB, and something that is not connected correctly. I am just currently trying something simple, when the Search Button is clicked, load the next NIB file. That way, I'll know that I have the right code in the right method.

You've been a HUGE help so far! If you need any more information, please let me know! Thanks so much!

[baja_yu]

Check in the header file, where the @interface is declare, does it say UISearchBarDelegate within the angle brackets < >

For example:

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController <UISearchBarDelegate> {

[aaronbastian]

Originally Posted by baja_yu

Check in the header file, where the @interface is declare, does it say UISearchBarDelegate within the angle brackets < >

For example:

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController <UISearchBarDelegate> {

Yes, I do have that exactly.
It's almost as if the send button on the firstResponder does nothing, or is not tied to the searchBarSearchButtonClicked method.

The only code that I have in that method currently is just pulling up a website in a new NIB, just to make sure that the button works.

I really hope that this thread doesn't frustrate you so much that you can't help. Thanks so much for your time!