setting enablesReturnKeyAutomatically on UISearchBar

ErikCarlson · 05-20-2010, 02:45 AM

Hi There,

I want the search button in the keyboard from my UISearchBar to have the search button enabled all the time. If this was any old UITextField (not a search bar) the property would be enablesReturnKeyAutomatically.

I have tried setting this using the example given at Apple - Support - Discussions - UISearchBar: enable search button by ...

which suggests:

Code:

UITextField *searchTextField ; 
    searchTextField = [[searchBar subviews]objectAtIndex:0];
    searchTextField.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO ;

Should work.

unfortunately it crashes:

Code:

2010-05-20 08:36:18.284 ARemote[5929:207] *** -[UISearchBarBackground setEnablesReturnKeyAutomatically:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b31980
2010-05-20 08:36:18.284 ARemote[5929:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[UISearchBarBackground setEnablesReturnKeyAutomatically:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b31980'

I have also tried

Code:

((UITextField *)[(NSArray *)[searchBar subviews] objectAtIndex:0]).enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;

Which gives similar results.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Erik

Fanagame · 11-15-2010, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ErikCarlson

Hi There,

I want the search button in the keyboard from my UISearchBar to have the search button enabled all the time. If this was any old UITextField (not a search bar) the property would be enablesReturnKeyAutomatically.

I have tried setting this using the example given at Apple - Support - Discussions - UISearchBar: enable search button by ...

which suggests:

Code:

UITextField *searchTextField ; 
    searchTextField = [[searchBar subviews]objectAtIndex:0];
    searchTextField.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO ;

Should work.

unfortunately it crashes:

Code:

2010-05-20 08:36:18.284 ARemote[5929:207] *** -[UISearchBarBackground setEnablesReturnKeyAutomatically:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b31980
2010-05-20 08:36:18.284 ARemote[5929:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[UISearchBarBackground setEnablesReturnKeyAutomatically:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b31980'

I have also tried

Code:

((UITextField *)[(NSArray *)[searchBar subviews] objectAtIndex:0]).enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;

Which gives similar results.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Erik

I guess you've already found an answer by know, but just in case (or for other folks having the same problem) :

Code:

for (UIView *subview in mySearchBar.subviews) {
		if ([subview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"UITextField")]) {
			((UITextField *)subview).enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;
		}
	}

Matthijs · 12-30-2010, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fanagame

I guess you've already found an answer by know, but just in case (or for other folks having the same problem) :

Code:

for (UIView *subview in mySearchBar.subviews) {
		if ([subview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"UITextField")]) {
			((UITextField *)subview).enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;
		}
	}

Works great, thanks!