Disabling user input for UITextfield in swift

Question

pretty trivial question, I know. But I can not find anything online.

I need to disable the user from being able to edit the text inside of a text field. So that when the

Answer 1

Another solution, declare your controller as UITextFieldDelegate, implement this call-back:

@IBOutlet weak var myTextField: UITextField!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    myTextField.delegate = self
}

func textFieldShouldBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    if textField == myTextField {
        return false; //do not show keyboard nor cursor
    }
    return true
}