How to find out what UITextField caused a UIKeyboardWillShowNotification?

Question

I am trying to use a customized keyboard in my application, but I am hitting problems when trying to restrict it to one particular UITextField.

I based my code on this X

Answer 1

You can write a UIView category method to find the first responder.

- (UIView *)firstResponder
{
    if ([self isFirstResponder])
    {
        return self;
    }

    for (UIView *view in self.subviews)
    {
        UIView *firstResponder= [view firstResponder];
        if (firstResponder)
        {
            return firstResponder;
        }
    }

    return nil;
}

Then in your - (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification method you can use it like this

  UITextField *textField = (UITextField *)[self firstResponder];