XCode: Displaying a UIDatePicker when user clicks on UITextbox

Question

I have already researched this topic to death and found people posting the exact same question on a number of websites including right here in stackoverflow.

I have

Answer 1

I had the same issue using Storyboard. Here is how I resolved it:

Overview: I alloc and initialize my UIDatePicker property in viewDidLoad:. I then set the inputView property of my textfield to my datepicker property.

Here is my code: In TripViewController.h:

@property (nonatomic,strong) IBOutlet UIDatePicker *datePicker;

In TripViewController.m:

@synthesize datePicker;
...
-(void)viewDidLoad {
...
self.datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc]init];
[self.datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(dateChanged) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
self.dateField.inputView = self.datePicker;
}

I then implement my method, dateChanged so that whenever the date picker wheel stops moving, my textfield is updated.

- (void)dateChanged
{
NSDate *date = self.datePicker.date;
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[dateFormat setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
self.dateField.text = [dateFormat stringFromDate:date];
}