Can I dismiss the iPhone keyboard by touching the background of DialogViewController (MonoTouch.Dialog)? [duplicate]

Question

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MonoTouch.Dialog: Dismissing keyboard by touching anywhere in DialogViewController

I'm using DialogViewController from MonoTouch.Dialogs. I'd like to be able to dismiss the keyboard by clicking on the background of the dialog.

I usually employ the technique of filling the view with a large custom button and placing it behind all the other elements. However, I can't make this work in the DialogViewController. I did this in LoadView and it just froze all the other controls.

Is there a relatively straightforward way of achieving what I want?

Paddle

Answer 1

In view controller:

public override void TouchesBegan (NSSet touches, UIEvent evt)
    {
        base.TouchesBegan (touches, evt);

        myField.ResignFirstResponder();
    }

Edit: From what I've read, you can use the TouchesBegan event for the cell subview instead of the table itself. I'm not positive that works. Good luck :)

Haymes

+1 for actually having it in .net :) – Bowra

+1 as it's a neat approach to the more general problem. However, it doesn't solve my problem with MonoTouch.Dialog. This is descended from UITableViewController, which doesn't seem to receive the TouchesBegan event. – Paddle

-1 Doesn't work for MonoTouch.Dialog which is what the original question was asking. – Bouldon

Answer 2

miguel.de.icaza answered this question on a different thread: https://mcmap.net/q/721246/-monotouch-dialog-dismissing-keyboard-by-touching-anywhere-in-dialogviewcontroller.

His solution:

   var tap = new UITapGestureRecognizer ();
   tap.AddTarget (() =>{
       dvc.View.EndEditing (true);
   });
   dvc.View.AddGestureRecognizer (tap);

Sylvie

You could help us out by flagging the question as a duplicate, instead of posting a duplicate answer to a duplicate question. – Elastic

I have never done that before. I assume it is just the flag link under the question? – Sylvie

Yes. Use the "Other" option in the flagging dialog. – Elastic