Help working with a custom keyboard.

[webdesigndeluxe]

Hey everyone, I'm new to the iPhone Dev SDK site. Hope it will help me as I'm still a noob to iPhone development. I'm creating an app that has a custom numeric keyboard. I have an IBAction 'buttonDigitPressed' that when a digit is pressed it will simply add the digit to a UILabel. Now I have another label that I wish to do the same yet I'm not sure how to gain 'focus' of that particular label. I placed an invisible button over the second label so when pressed hopefully I can call an action to switch the keyboard from the first label to the second label. Yet I have no clue how to accomplish this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Bobarino]

Originally Posted by webdesigndeluxe

Hey everyone, I'm new to the iPhone Dev SDK site. Hope it will help me as I'm still a noob to iPhone development. I'm creating an app that has a custom numeric keyboard. I have an IBAction 'buttonDigitPressed' that when a digit is pressed it will simply add the digit to a UILabel. Now I have another label that I wish to do the same yet I'm not sure how to gain 'focus' of that particular label. I placed an invisible button over the second label so when pressed hopefully I can call an action to switch the keyboard from the first label to the second label. Yet I have no clue how to accomplish this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Could you show code for this custom keyboard. Also, you don't need to have an invisible button over the label. When creating the button just change its type to custom in attributes and work off of that (just easier to do for the future).

[webdesigndeluxe]

Originally Posted by Bobarino

Could you show code for this custom keyboard. Also, you don't need to have an invisible button over the label. When creating the button just change its type to custom in attributes and work off of that (just easier to do for the future).

Well yes, that's what I meant by 'invisible button' just a button over the label with the custom attribute.

Here's the viewController.h:

@interface ComparatorViewController : UIViewController {
	
	float result;
	IBOutlet UILabel *priceOne;
	IBOutlet UILabel *priceTwo;
	IBOutlet UILabel *unitOne;
	IBOutlet UILabel *unitTwo;
	int currentOperation;
	double currentNumber;

}


-(IBAction)buttonDigitPressed:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)priceTwoPressed:(id)sender;

@end

Then the viewController.m:

@implementation ComparatorViewController


-(IBAction)buttonDigitPressed:(id)sender {
	currentNumber = currentNumber*10 + (double)[sender tag];
	priceOne.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%.2f",currentNumber / 100.0f];

}

The IBAction 'buttonDigitPressed' is linked to each button or number in this case for keyboard.

[Bobarino]

Is the keyboard supposed to be the same in both labels? I personally have never worked with custom keyboards, but my guess would be you do what you did with the first label to the second label. If the keyboard doesn't change and is supposed to be the same thing in the other label, maybe make another IBaction with the same code and apply that to the second label. Like I said, I have never worked with a custom keyboard, but if you are looking for the same keyboard to pop up in the other label, then just rewrite the same code (you may have to change the IBaction name).