How to display UIDatePicker if user hit the UITextfield Programmatically

Question

I\'d like to Display UIDatePicker only when user the UITextField is Clicked. When the date is picked, it should be shown in the same UITextField.I want to implement UIDatePicker

Answer 1

You need to add a proper selector when editing begins on UITexfield, use below code

 [txtDOB addTarget:self action:@selector(textbeginEditing:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingDidBegin];

And then implelemt the textbeginEditing method to open the datepicker.

-(void)textbeginEditing:(id)sender{

UIActionSheet __autoreleasing * date_sheet = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:@"Select the date" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil destructiveButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:nil];

date_sheet.tag = 2;

[date_sheet setActionSheetStyle:UIActionSheetStyleBlackTranslucent];

CGRect pickerFrame = CGRectMake(0, 40, 0, 0);

UIDatePicker *datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] initWithFrame:pickerFrame];

datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate;
datePicker.hidden = NO;
datePicker.date = [NSDate date];

// Implement the method labelChange
 [datePicker addTarget:self
                action:@selector(labelChange:)
      forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];


[date_sheet addSubview:datePicker];

UISegmentedControl __autoreleasing *closeButton = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"Close"]];

closeButton.momentary = YES;    
closeButton.frame = CGRectMake(260, 7.0f, 50.0f, 30.0f);    
closeButton.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;    
closeButton.tintColor = [UIColor blackColor];

[closeButton addTarget:self action:@selector(dissmissDatePicker:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

[date_sheet addSubview:closeButton];
[date_sheet showInView:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]];    
[date_sheet setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 400)];
}

labelChange method implementation

-(void)labelChange:(UIDatePicker *)sender{
NSDateFormatter __autoreleasing *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
 dateFormat.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle;
 NSString *dateString =  [dateFormat stringFromDate:sender.date];
 txtDOB.text = dateString; 
}