How to programmatically adjust focus of a UITextView?

Question

So, I want to create a modal view controller that has a UITextView, and I want the keyboard to pop up automatically, and the UITextView has focus.

I found a way to do this by following these steps:

textView.editable = YES; textView.editable = NO; 

It just seems hacked to me, is there any other way?

Answer 1

Since UITextView inherits from UIResponder (indirectly, it inherits from UIScrollView , which inherits from UIView , which then inherits from UIResponder ), you can call the -becomeFirstResponder method in your text field, which will make it become the first responder and start editing:

 [textView becomeFirstResponder]; 

Answer 2

Swift:

 textView.becomeFirstResponder() 

Answer 3

It looks somewhat hacky.

Cocoa Touch's terminology for “with focus” is the “first responder,” and the UITextView will display its keyboards when they are the first responder. I can come up with several methods to make UITextView the first responder, but the easiest is probably your viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear control method:

 - (void) viewWillAppear: (BOOL) animated
 {

     [myTextView becomeFirstResponder];

     [super viewWillAppear: animated];
 }

Answer 4

 [textView becomeFirstResponder]; 

Answer 5

If you want the focus to be that specific TextView when loading the ViewController, you can put textView.becomeFirstResponder () in the OverDend ViewDidLoad function, as shown below:

  override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() textView.becomeFirstResponder() } 

I believe this works without errors