Listing 5-1 Handling the keyboard notifications
// Call this method somewhere in your view controller setup code.
- (void)registerForKeyboardNotifications
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(keyboardWasShown:)
name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(keyboardWasHidden:)
name:UIKeyboardDidHideNotification object:nil];
}
// Called when the UIKeyboardDidShowNotification is sent.
- (void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
if (keyboardShown)
return;
NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
// Get the size of the keyboard.
NSValue* aValue = [info objectForKey:UIKeyboardBoundsUserInfoKey];
CGSize keyboardSize = [aValue CGRectValue].size;
// Resize the scroll view (which is the root view of the window)
CGRect viewFrame = [scrollView frame];
viewFrame.size.height -= keyboardSize.height;
scrollView.frame = viewFrame;
// Scroll the active text field into view.
CGRect textFieldRect = [activeField frame];
[scrollView scrollRectToVisible:textFieldRect animated:YES];
keyboardShown = YES;
}
// Called when the UIKeyboardDidHideNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWasHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
// Get the size of the keyboard.
NSValue* aValue = [info objectForKey:UIKeyboardBoundsUserInfoKey];
CGSize keyboardSize = [aValue CGRectValue].size;
// Reset the height of the scroll view to its original value
CGRect viewFrame = [scrollView frame];
viewFrame.size.height += keyboardSize.height;
scrollView.frame = viewFrame;
keyboardShown = NO;
}