Show UIPickerView text field is selected, then hide after selected

Question

I am trying to create a text box that when it is selected a UIPickerView opens up with choices to select from. Once selected, the UIPickerView hides and the selected item is displayed in the text box. I tried different pieces of code I found online but I just can't get it to work. If someone can suggest a complete code for this or tell me what I am doing wrong in my code, that would be super awesome. Thanks so much.

Here is my code:

@IBOutlet var textfieldBizCat: UITextField!
@IBOutlet var pickerBizCat: UIPickerView! = UIPickerView()

var bizCat = ["Cat One", "Cat Two", "Cat Three"]


override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    var bizCatCount = bizCat.count

    self.textfieldBizCat.inputView = pickerView

}

// returns the number of 'columns' to display.
func numberOfComponentsInPickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!) -> Int{
    return 1
}

// returns the # of rows in each component..
func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, numberOfRowsInComponent component: Int) -> Int{
    return bizCat.count
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, titleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> String! {
    return bizCat[row]
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, didSelectRow row: Int, inComponent component: Int)
{
    textfieldBizCat.text = "\(bizCat[row])"

}

Answer 1

If I understood well your question, you want:

1. Have an UITextField which display a text selected
2. Opening a picker when the user click on the UITextField
3. Close the picker when an item (in the picker) is selected, and set it in the `UITextField

This is the complete code to manage it, you just have to link the delegate of your UITextField:

@IBOutlet var textfieldBizCat: UITextField!
@IBOutlet var pickerBizCat: UIPickerView! = UIPickerView()

var bizCat = ["Cat One", "Cat Two", "Cat Three"]


override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    pickerBizCat.hidden = true;
    textfieldBizCat.text = bizCat[0]
}

// returns the number of 'columns' to display.
func numberOfComponentsInPickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!) -> Int{
    return 1
}

// returns the # of rows in each component..
func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, numberOfRowsInComponent component: Int) -> Int{
    return bizCat.count
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, titleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> String! {
    return bizCat[row]
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, didSelectRow row: Int, inComponent component: Int)
{
    textfieldBizCat.text = bizCat[row]
    pickerBizCat.hidden = true;
}

func textFieldShouldBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    pickerBizCat.hidden = false
    return false
}

What I changed from your code:

• Used UITextFieldDelegate to display the picker when the UITextField is selected
• Hide the picker once an item is selected, and setup the UITextField
• Set the first row of your picker in the UITextField when any item is selected

Answer 2

  // pressing the button again would hide the uipickerview. when pressed the first time, update the button's label to "done" , "hide" or whatever suits u!
    @IBAction func propertyTypeButtonPressed(sender: UIButton)/* the name of your button's action*/
    {
        count++; //declare it first
        ViewContainigPickerView.hidden = false
        self.view.endEditing(true)

        if (count == 2)
        {
            ViewContainingPickerView.hidden = true /* if you placed your picker on a separate view for simplicity*/
            count = 0;

        }

    }

Answer 3

How about in your didSelectRow method you resignFirstResponder?

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView!, didSelectRow row: Int, inComponent component: Int)
{
textfieldBizCat.text = bizCat[row]
pickerBizCat.resignFirstResponder()
}