iphone keyboard without textview

Question

is it possible to bring up the keyboard in an iphone app without a textview? or will i have to have an invisible textview?

if so, how do you programatically create a

Answer 1

After some more digging, I found this. It's unofficial, but I bet it works.

UIKeyboard *keyboard = [[[UIKeyboard alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0.0f, contentRect.size.height - 216.0f, contentRect.size.width, 216.0f)] autorelease];
        [keyboard setReturnKeyEnabled:NO];
        [keyboard setTapDelegate:editingTextView];
        [inputView addSubview:keyboard];