UISearchBar Cancel Button

Question

Using a UISearchBar with showCancelButton=YES on iOS 5. Would like the cancel button to stay enabled when the keyboard drops down. Using the following code seems not to work:<

Answer 1

Just to improve upon what Kurt Spindler said on his post. Though this might not be superior but it is more contained. I use dispatch to do the same thing.

-(void)searchBarTextDidEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
    for (UIView *subview in searchBar.subviews)
    {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]])
        {
            int64_t delayInSeconds = .001;
            dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC);
            dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
                UIButton * cancelButton = (UIButton *)subview;
                [cancelButton setEnabled:YES];
            });
            break;
        }
    }
}

This should work for everyone who needs help keep cancel enabled. Make sure that you hide it later either with the cancel or Search clicked.

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
    [searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO animated:YES];
}