How to Get Rid of Keyboard with a Tap on Background part2

There was a nice way to remove keyboard by using UITextView, but that has stopped working with iOS4. At least I got such a defect report for beta application. This time I will remove keyboard using UIButton, let's see how long that will work:

- (IBAction)removeKeyboard
{
    [textField1 resignFirstResponder];
    [textField2 resignFirstResponder];
}

Open your view in Interface Builder, create new custom full screen UIButton to cover everything, select UITextFields and UIButtons (etc.) one by one and "Send to Front" via Layout menu. Connect UIButton "Touch Up Inside" to your callback and that's it.

Nice, easy, simple, fast - what more can you ask for!

How to Create Custom Map Annotation Button

Custom accessory button for MKPinAnnotationView right side, create inside MKMapViewDelegate protocol mapView:viewForAnnotation method:

UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 20, 20)];
[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"myButton.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; 
view.rightCalloutAccessoryView = button;

Usually sample codes use UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure as right button, but you can't use that unless you really show additional details. For anything else, you must use a custom button.

Multiline UIButton Title

Some things are really easy with iPhone SDK - eventually. For example if you want to have a non-custom UIButton with multiline title:

Write button title in "Title" field. When you want to have a linebreak, press Alt-Return. Then set "Line Breaks" as Character Wrap or Word Wrap. Done!

(Using Interface Builder)

How to Get Rid of Keyboard with a Tap on Background

There is a screen with a couple of UITextFields and UIButtons. When user taps on UITextField, keyboard popups. Very nice of iPhone SDK to provide such a feature! Each UITextField and UIButton is a clickable object with easy callbacks.

But how do you get rid of keyboard?

Should you have a special "Please hide keyboard" button or tap into accelerometer to notice when user gets desperate enough to start shaking the device? There's an easier way...

Add a full-screen empty non-editable UITextView over the whole screen. Select each clickable object e.g. UITextField, UIButton or other UITextViews and use Interface Builder menu item Layout - Send to Front to place them on top of your full-screen UITextField.

When user clicks on anywhere except your clickable objects, keyboard disappears. What a relief!

Please note that, if you leave any non-clickable objects e.g. UILabel on top of your full-screen UITextView, clicking on those spots will not hide keyboard.