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Brandon Mahoney
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 30,149 PointsSetting keyboard type programmatically in Xcode
I have created an IBOutlet with multiple text fields and would like to change the keyboard type to the number pad. I have done so within the Utility pane but it does not change the keyboard type when I run the simulator. I have tried multiple methods including the below example. Any suggestions and also where should I put it?
nameofIBOutlet.keyboardType = UIKeyboardType.NumberPad
1 Answer
rh12
4,407 PointsI added a text field to my view and changed the keyboard type to "number pad" in the attributes inspector. I then ran the app in the simulator and the number pad was displayed when the text field was selected. I'm not sure why this is not working for you.
I then tried a second approach in which I created an IBOutlet for the text field (note: I changed the keyboard type back to default in the attributes inspector). I then created an IBAction for the text field using the "Editing did begin" event. In this function I added the code to change the keyboard type. This also works in the simulator.
@IBAction func testEdit(sender: AnyObject) {
testTextField.keyboardType = .NumberPad
}
Brandon Mahoney
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 30,149 PointsBrandon Mahoney
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 30,149 PointsStrangely it just randomly started working one day.