How I tell my UITextField (code) to resign first responder?

Question

I have created my UITextField by code, without InterfaceBuilder. I want the keyboard to disappear when the button "Done" is pushed. How does the code know that I am referending to an UITextField and no to other one

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First, thanks a lot.

My code is like this:

-(void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    field = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(30, 100, 185, 30)];
    field.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
    field.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    field.placeholder = @"Text";
    field.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
    field.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
    field.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    field.delegate = self;
    [self.view addSubview:field];
} 

......

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];

}

With this code I push the button Done and nothing happen. Is like that how you say?

Edit:

I've created two UITextField how I did with the previous one. But now, for each row I do this:

 if ([indexPath row] == 0) {
     [cell.contentView addSubview:pTextField];
 }
 else {
     [cell.contentView addSubview:pTextField];
 }

So with this code, the program received signal "EXC_BAD_ACCESS". Any idea why happen this?

Answer 1

How does the code know that I am referending to an UITextField and no to other one

Your textFieldShouldReturn: method's textField parameter will always be the text field that is currently active.

The method has to return a BOOL, you should be getting compiler warnings with it as it stands. Try

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

Note that you are also currently leaking memory in the way you add the text field. You should set it as a property as per WrightCS's answer so that you can refer to it later on. So at the end of your viewDidLoad:

self.myTextField = field;
[field release];