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UITextField: force resignFirstResponder when tapped outside of it

I have a static UITableView that contains a number of UITextFields. When the user taps outside of any of the text fields I'd like to I'd like to dismiss the keyboard.

At the top level of my UIViewController is a UITableView and a UITabBarItem. I believe I'll also have to handle taps on the status bar.

I am unsure as how I should register for touches on them (so that I can force any of the text fields to call resignFirstResponder.

I thought I might have to handle UIResponder's

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event

for the table view and tab bar item but neither of them are UIControls so I can't use

- (void)addTarget:(id)target action:(SEL)action forControlEvents:(UIControlEvents)controlEvents

UIWindow is also a UIResponder but again, I can't seem to get touch events for it.

Any help would be much appreciated, CS

Solution

  • When you have a static UITableView it "eats" the touch events. So what I did was by subclassing UITableView and then added a delegate which reports touch events.