UISearchBar's Cancel and Clear Buttons Not Working in iOS 7

Question

I have an xCode project that contains a tableview with a “Search Bar and Search Display Controller” to allow the user to refine the list of displayed items. In general, the

Answer 1

I googled all over internet and couldn't find a solution. so i changed the UItableview behaviour.

instead of [searchBar becomeFirstResponder]; I scroll down the tableview.

- (IBAction)goToSearch:(id)sender {

 scroll down to show the table.
//    CGRect newBounds = self.TableView.bounds;
//    newBounds.origin.y =0;
//    
//    self.TableView.bounds = newBounds;
//[searchBar becomeFirstResponder];

    CGPoint contentOffset=self.TableView.contentOffset;
    contentOffset.y=0;
    [self.TableView setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:YES];


}

in my ViewDidload:

//        CGRect newBounds = self.TableView.bounds;
//        newBounds.origin.y = newBounds.origin.y + searchBar.bounds.size.height;
        // self.TableView.bounds = newBounds;

        CGPoint contentOffset=self.TableView.contentOffset;
        contentOffset.y=self.TableView.bounds.origin.y + searchBar.bounds.size.height;
        self.TableView.contentOffset=contentOffset;

If found for some reasons, in iOS 7 , change table view bounds cause search bar to disappear. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I have had this problem too. Strangely other delegate methods of UISearchBarDelegate are being called. A workaround might be:

- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText{
    if ([searchText length] == 0) {
        NSLog("No Text");
    }
}

It worked for me

Answer 3

This problem seems to come from the new behaviour of the translucent property in a navigation bar.

Since iOS 7 navigation bars are translucent by default. And it looks like it's overlapping the search bar when you display it after pressing a button. If you scroll to the top of your listView and use the search bar, it should be working correctly.

Try to set in your controller:

float osVersion = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
if (osVersion >= 7.0)
{
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
}

This should quickly solve the problem.

But I think for a better fix you should see the iOS 7 transition guide where they explain how to handle translucent navigation bars.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

button Cancel and button Clear won't work if you touch button Search on navigation. If you tap on Search bar to star searching, it works normally => That mean if search bar is not visible on screen before staring search, then those buttons seem like disable too.

So that, I found a solution, but it is not totally perfect. Before you make search bar become first response, you have to scroll table view to top. Try this code.

-(IBAction)goToSearch:(id)sender {
     // Make search bar visible on screen before make it response
    [_tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 0) animated:NO];

    // Make search bar active
    [candySearchBar becomeFirstResponder];
}

The only issue occur if you do this, is your table view will scroll to top, which mean when you cancel search, you lost current cell index before.

Answer 5

I have the same problem, I tried with the following code. Please try this one.

-(void)searchDisplayControllerDidBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
    controller.active = YES;

    [self.view addSubview:controller.searchBar];
    [self.view bringSubviewToFront:controller.searchBar];
}

- (void)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller didShowSearchResultsTableView:(UITableView *)tableView  {

    tableView.frame = self.archiveListTblView.frame;
}

- (void)searchDisplayControllerDidEndSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
    controller.active=NO;

    [self.view addSubview:controller.searchBar];
}

Answer 6

In my case, I had repositioned the searchbar to the top of the screen, and there was an invisible view which is overlapped over the searchbar.

Thus cancel button was not touched actually.

So, I have brought the seachbar front when [searchBarTextDidBeginEditing] method was called like below.

-(void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
    lc_SearchBarYPos.constant = 20.0f; //this is code to reposition the searchbar
    [self.view bringSubviewToFront:searchBar];
}

Hope this may help.