Friday, January 20, 2012

Resetting UISearchbar programmatically


Is there a possibility to reset a UISearchbar with searchDisplayController programmatically which is active and already contains text?




- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

if (tableView == self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView) {
searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView.hidden = YES;
searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
[searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}
}



This solution is working, but there is still text in the searchBar. If i add those lines of code:




searchBar.text = @"";



There is always a black transparent view left.



Any solutions?

4 comments:

  1. Here ya go. This is a delegate method called when the user hits cancel. If you want to wire it up differently just declare your search bar as an outlet and reference it. Anyway:

    -(void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
    {
    searchBar.text = @"";
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
    }

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  2. don't you have to retire the firstResponder

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  3. [self.searchBar resignFirstResponder]

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  4. You can also explicitly hide the resultsTableView, if that's what you want:

    searchDC.searchResultsTableView.hidden=YES;


    (searchDC is an instance of UISearchDisplayController)

    This will help you with hiding the Cancel button and stuff: http://www.alexandre-gomes.com/?p=418

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