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Capture key press event using NSNotificationCenter

this solution Receive iPhone keyboard events

offers a way to capture the keypress event using notification center.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: self selector: @selector(keyPressed:) name: UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification object: nil];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: self selector: @selector(keyPressed:) name: UITextViewTextDidChangeNotification object: nil];

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-(void) keyPressed: (NSNotification*) notification
{
  NSLog([[notification object]text]);
}

It works ok, but for every key that is been pressed from the keyboard the keyPressed function gets called 3 times.

Is this normal or am i doing something wrong?

Teo

Solution

  • The notification should only appear once per key pressed. At least that is what I get when testing. The only thing I can think of is that you are calling addObserver:selector:name:object: three times.

    Perhaps you are doing it in several view controllers and forget to call removeObserver:name:object:?

    Or you are calling addObserver:selector:name:object: in a function that gets called several times? viewDidLoad is normally a good place to put code like this.