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[아이폰] UIKeyboard 키보드 자판 숫자


UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable


The standard keyboard.

UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation
The other side of the standard keyboard.

UIKeyboardTypeURL
The keyboard for URLs.

UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad
The keyboard that likes numbers!

UIKeyboardTypePhonePad
Good for getting phone numbers! ;)

UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad
Warning!  Has no capital letters!

UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress
This one might be for an email address?

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UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad and the missing "return" keyPDFPrintE-mail
News Development
Written by Luzian Scherrer   
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:00

UPDATE 17 June 2010

With the arrival of new iOS versions (like 3.2 for iPad and 4.0 for iPhone/iPod touch), some internals regarding our solution have seized working due to changes in the SDK on Apple's side (as some of our readers pointed out in the comments). Now we have updated our solution to also work with iOS versions > 3.1.3 (meaning specifically 3.2 and 4.0GM "golden master").
Please feel free to download the complete XCode project at the bottom of the article.
To keep it short, the behaviour of the keyboard has changed in versions > 3.1.3 in such a manner that it's no longer possible to add the button before the keyboard slides up. This means that the done button has to be added after the keyboard is put in place. This has been pointed out and explained in more detail by one of our readers.

In that way, the new solution is not perfect. On the other hand, most users will not be aware of it anyway. We're looking into the matter in more detail when we find some spare time and maybe come up with a more sophisticated solution.

 

 If you have ever written an iPhone app that requires numeric input, then you surely know about the UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad. And if you have ever used that flavor of the iPhone's keyboard, then you surely know that it lacks one very important feature: The UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad does not have a "return" key.

In fact every other keyboard type (except for the pretty similar UIKeyboardTypePhonePad) does offer the possibility to be dismissed by setting the returnKeyType property of the corresponding UITextInputTraits implementor. So how does one achieve the same effect with the number pad? We have found a workround!

When looking at the number pad, you'll notice that there is an unused space on its bottom left. That's where we are going to plug in our custom "return" key.

To make it short: take a screenshot, cut out the whole backspace key, flip it horizotally, clear its backspace symbol in Photoshop and overlay it with the text that we want on our “return” key. We’ve chosen to label it “DONE”. Now we have the image for our custom button’s UIControlStateNormal. Repeat the whole procedure (with a touched backspace key when taking the screenshot) to get a second image for our button’s UIControlStateHighlighted. Here’s the result:

   

Now back to coding. First we need to know when the number pad is going to be slided up on the screen so we can plug in our custom button before that happens. Luckily there’s a notification for exactly that purpose, and registering for it is as easy as:

 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
                                         selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) 
                                             name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification 
                                           object:nil];
 

Don't forget to remove the observer from the notification center in the appropriate place once you're done with the whole thing:

 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];

Now we’re getting to the heart of it. All we have to do in the keyboardWillShow method is to locate the keyboard view and add our button to it. The keyboard view is part of a second UIWindow of our application as others have already figured out (see this thread). So we take a reference to that window (it will be the second window in most cases, so objectAtIndex:1 in the code below is fine), traverse its view hierarchy until we find the keyboard and add the button to its lower left:

 
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)note {  
    // create custom button
    UIButton *doneButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    doneButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 163, 106, 53);
    doneButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;
    [doneButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"DoneUp.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [doneButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"DoneDown.png"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
    [doneButton addTarget:self action:@selector(doneButton:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
 
    // locate keyboard view
    UIWindow* tempWindow = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] objectAtIndex:1];
    UIView* keyboard;
    for(int i=0; i<[tempWindow.subviews count]; i++) {
        keyboard = [tempWindow.subviews objectAtIndex:i];
        // keyboard view found; add the custom button to it
        if([[keyboard description] hasPrefix:@"<UIKeyboard"] == YES)
            [keyboard addSubview:doneButton];
    }
}

Voilà, that’s it! The empty space for our button starts at coordinate (0, 163) and has the dimensions (106, 53). The doneButton method has to be written now of course, but that’s not hard any more. Just make sure that you call resignFirstResponder on the text field that is being edited to have the keyboard slide down.

We’re “DONE”.

We have just discovered that the graphical design of the keyboard has slightly changed in the current iPhone OS 3.0 beta version. This means that the position and the image of our custom button will have to be adapted to that new style.

The whole thing can be downloaded as Xcode project from us.
UPDATE: download 3.0 compatible Xcode project.
UPDATE 2010: download the newest version (runs on all "known" versions 2.0 - 4.0)

 
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KeyboardExtension.zip


KeyboardExtension_2010.zip


KeyboardExtension_Updated.zip