ios 8 custom keyboard hold button to delete?

Question

I am currently building a custom keyboard and I am almost done. One problem that I have is with the delete button. When the user taps the delete button, it does what it shou

Answer 1

you can do this by managing button’s events like touchdown, touchupinside and touchoutside.

When button press at that time start timer with delay of 0.2 seconds and delete last characters from textDocumentProxy until button’s touchup method will fire and after that you just need to invalidate timer.

[self.btnDelete addTarget:self action:@selector(btnTocuhDown:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
[self.btnDelete addTarget:self action:@selector(btnTouchUp:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.btnDelete addTarget:self action:@selector(btnTouchUp:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpOutside];

-(void) btnTocuhDown

    NSTimer *timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.2  target:self selector:@selector(kpTimerMethod:) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

self.kpTimer = timer;
__weak typeof(self)weakSelf = self;
dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(0.5 * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
    if (timer == self.kpTimer) {
        [weakSelf.kpTimer fire];
    }
});

-(void)kpTimerMethod:(NSTimer *)timer

if (self.btnDelete.highlighted)
{
    [self deleteLastCharacter];
}
else
{
    [timer invalidate];
    self.kpTimer = nil;
}

-(void)deleteLastCharacter

NSString *strInput = self.textDocumentProxy.documentContextBeforeInput;

if (strInput.length > 1)
    NSString *coupleOfLastCharacters = [strInput substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(strInput.length-2, 2)];
    if( [@"yo" caseInsensitiveCompare:coupleOfLastCharacters] == NSOrderedSame ) {
        [self.textDocumentProxy deleteLastCharacter];
    }
}
[self.textDocumentProxy deleteLastCharacter];

-(void) btnTouchUp

[self.kpTimer invalidate];
self.kpTimer = nil;