iPhone display date picker on UITextField touch

Question

I followed this thread: datepicker by clicking on textfield

I imported both of the following protocols:

@interface ViewController : UIViewController&         


        

Answer 1

You could use the UITextField input view property. Just alloc init a regular UIDatePicker in code and assign it to the textfield's inputView. Doing this, the UIPickerView will be presented instead of the keyboard. If you need any code feel free to ask :)

EDIT: code

You fist hook up your textField with IB

@interface myViewController 
@property (nonatomic,weak) IBOutlet UITextField *myTextField;
@end 

In the implementation

UIDatePicker *datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc]init];
[datePicker setDate:[NSDate date]];
[datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(updateTextField:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];       
[self.myTextField setInputView:datePicker];

That will bring up a UIDatePicker when you tap on the textField. Note the action that I added to the datePicker.

[datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(updateTextField:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

To update the textField each time that the user scrolls in the picker, you just need to implement the updateTextField method somewhere in the viewController

-(void)updateTextField:(id)sender
{
  UIDatePicker *picker = (UIDatePicker*)self.myTextField.inputView;
  self.myTextField.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",picker.date];
}

With this last method, every time the user rotates the picker, the textfield will update!

• You could use a NSDateFormatter to improve the output of the string.