Custom Keyboard

[conjurer]

Lately I've been trying to figure out how to create a view that only takes up a portion of the screen for the purpose of making a custom keyboard, among other things. If anyone knows of an existing tutorial that would help in this aspect or knows how to accomplish this and is willing to share it would be greatly appreciated. This one has had me stumped for quite some time!

Thanks,
V

[Deklann]

Look into Modal Views. Modal views behave just as the keyboard does (they slide up from the bottom of the screen,).

I would imagine that if you were going to try to implement your own keyboard, you would want to start with a good understanding of how a Modal View behaves.

Hope this helps....
Deklann

[conjurer]

Modal Views are one of the approaches that I've tried. It gives the proper animation but I still haven't figured out how to make it not fill in the whole screen. I know I need to do something to the effect of:

CGRect screen = CGRectMake(0, 200, 320, 200);
UIView* halfScreen = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:screen]]

My problem is that I'm still not sure where to properly place the code or how to add the modal view as a subview of halfScreen without the program crashing. I'm also trying to learn to write my code without using the interface builder as a crutch so I can better understand the lifecycle for programs on an iphone.

Thanks,
V

[keyboardcowboy]

I just wrote a tutorial on customizing the UIKeyboard class. I just dont know how to add it to the tutorials section.

[nacho4d]

I am really interested in how to implement a customized Keyboard.
Can you give us some ideas, Please?

The only thing I found was the UIKeyboard from jailbreaked iPhones... but I want the official way.

[arashparnia]

in the view that you like to add your half view.
#Import "thehalfview.h"

- (void) layoutSubviews{
CGRect r = [self bounds];
float w = [self bounds].size.width;
float h = [self bounds].size.height;
// use CGRectDivide(r, &helfview, &r, h * 0.10f, CGRectMinYEdge); to cut a //frame for it

halfview *thehalfview =
[[[halfview alloc]initWithFrame:halfview]autorelease];

[self addSubview:thehalfview];
}
// dont forget to setup your halfview
- (id) initWithFrameCGRect)frame{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self == nil)
return nil;