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swiftuipickerview

programmatically create .touchUpInside event for UITextField

Added a pickerView using a UITextField.

I am trying to trigger the pickerView programmatically.

    func myTypeDetector (textfield: UITextField) {
    typeLabel.delegate = self
    self.setType(textField: typeLabel)
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    typeLabel.addTarget(self, action: #selector(NewSpeciesVC.myTypeDetector(textfield:)), for: UIControlEvents.touchUpInside)
}

I have found how to do this via UIButton

self.typeLabel.sendActions(for: .touchUpInside)

However, this is not working for the UITextField.

I would like to programmatically create the event with the TextField, or create the PickerView event using a UIButton.

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • I needed to do the same thing and figured it out:

    self.typelabel.becomeFirstResponder()