Dynamically Changing Keyboard Type for a UISearchBar

Question

I have an iPhone app that uses a UISearchBar and UISearchDisplayController. The search bar has three scope buttons. I would like the keyboard to

Answer 1

Even though this is kind of a hack, this worked for me:

- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndexDidChange:(NSInteger)selectedScope {


    switch (selectedScope) {
    case 0:
       searchBar.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;
        break;
   default:
        searchBar.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
        break;


    // Hack: force ui to reflect changed keyboard type
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
    [searchBar becomeFirstResponder];

}