How to disable UITextField editing but still accept touch? How to disable UITextField editing but still accept touch? ios ios

How to disable UITextField editing but still accept touch?


Using the textfield delegate, there's a method

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string

Return NO from this, and any attempt by the user to edit the text will be rejected.

That way you can leave the field enabled but still prevent people pasting text into it.


Translate the answer of Nick to swift:

P/S: Return false => the textfields cannot input, edit by the keyboard. It just can set text by code.EX: textField.text = "My String Here"

override func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {    return false}


This would be the simplest of all:

in viewDidLoad:(set the delegate only for textfields which should not be editable.

self.textfield.delegate=self;

and insert this delegate function:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{return NO;}

Thats it!