UITextField text change event

Question

How can I detect any text changes in a textField? The delegate method shouldChangeCharactersInRange works for something, but it did not fulfill my need exactly.

Answer 1

You should use the notification to solve this problem,because the other method will listen to the input box not the actually input,especially when you use the Chinese input method. In viewDidload

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(textFiledEditChanged:)
                                                 name:@"UITextFieldTextDidChangeNotification"
                                               object:youTarget];

then

- (void)textFiledEditChanged:(NSNotification *)obj {
UITextField *textField = (UITextField *)obj.object;
NSString *toBestring = textField.text;
NSArray *currentar = [UITextInputMode activeInputModes];
UITextInputMode *currentMode = [currentar firstObject];
if ([currentMode.primaryLanguage isEqualToString:@"zh-Hans"]) {
    UITextRange *selectedRange = [textField markedTextRange];
    UITextPosition *position = [textField positionFromPosition:selectedRange.start offset:0];
    if (!position) {
        if (toBestring.length > kMaxLength)
            textField.text =  toBestring;
} 

}

finally,you run,will done.