Dismissing keyboard from UISearchBar when the X bu

Question

I'm using the UISearchBar (but not the SearchDisplayController that's typically used in conjunction) and I'd like to dismiss the keyboard when you hit the 'X' button.

I've followed TomSwift's suggestion on getting called when the 'X' is tapped and that works great. But resigning first responder from the text field and also invoking in the UISearchBar instance, both with resignFirstResponder, won't make the keyboard go away.

Is there a way to get rid of the keyboard when the user has tapped the X button?

Here's what I did to get the 'Clear' notify:

- (void)viewDidLoad:
{
    for (UIView* v in searchBar.subviews)
    {
        if ( [v isKindOfClass: [UITextField class]] )
        {
            UITextField *tf = (UITextField *)v;
            tf.delegate = self;
            break;
        }
    }    
}

Then I have my class setup to implement both UISearchBarDelegate and UITextFieldDelegate.

Having the class serve as the textfield delegate allows me to get this call:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldClear:(UITextField *)textField
{
     [textField resignFirstResponder];
     [self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
     return YES;
}

I've tried everything I can think of. The last thing I'm trying is to find a way to issue the 'searchBarCancelButtonClicked' that UISearchDelegate will invoke on my Controller class but not I'm sure how I could do this since the UISearchBar doesn't seem to have any direct methods to invoke with this name.

Answer 1

You can resignFirstResponder on the click of cancel Button as.

- (void)searchBarTextDidEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar

{

    SearchBar.showsCancelButton =NO;

}


- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{

    [SearchBar resignFirstResponder];


}