How can I keep the select / select all / cut / copy / paste bar from appearing when I programmatically select text in UITextField

Question

I've got a few instances of UITextField that I've added to some cells in a UITableView . I'm using the UITextField delegate to select all text in the textfield , like so:

-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    [textField selectAll:self];
}

The problem I'm seeing is that I don't want the selection popup to appear the first time you touch the cell. I want to be able to edit the text, so I don't want to use becomeFirstResponder .

Answer 1

What you need is UIMenuController and you can hide it using - (void)setMenuVisible:(BOOL)menuVisible animated:(BOOL)animated so after your [textField selectAll:self]; call the above method to hide the menu.

EDIT

After a little search on google it seems that you will need to create a subclass of UITextField and override the - (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender and return NO from this in order to hide the UIMenuController .

I can't test this right now since I'm not at my office but you should also try the following line [UIMenuController sharedMenuController].menuVisible = NO; before you start to implement a subclass of UITextField