IPhone SDK: disable the automatic creation of points (.) In the text box (or text view)

Question

I turned off the automatic correction type for my text box, and it does not show any other auto correction,

but it still automatically creates a period (.) when I press the spacebar twice.

For example, if I write “test” and press the space bar twice, it automatically goes into “test”.

Does anyone know how to disable this feature?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

I found one solution - it uses UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification, because it happens after applying automatic correction.

• Set delegate for text field

• Set notification

  - (void) viewDidLoad {
...
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(textFieldDidChange:)
name:UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification object:tfTitle];
}

• Then the notification handler
  - (void)textFieldDidChange:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
if ( [textField.text rangeOfString:@". "].length ) {
// Change text
textField.text = [textField.text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@". " withString:@" "];
}
}

Answer 2

Perhaps if you include a text field delegate and then implement the following method:

 -(BOOL)shouldReplaceCharactersInRange:(NSRange)aRage withString:(NSString *)aString 

You can check aString for an auto-corrected string (maybe @ ".") And then just return NO. This, we hope, will not allow @ "replace with @".