Disable blinking cursor in UITextField?

Question

I\'ve followed the instructions here and succesfully set up a UITextField that gets updated with a UIDatePicker. However the cursor in the UITextField is blinking, which see

Answer 1

I found this solution to be the easiest to implement.

Make sure you define UITextFieldDelegate in your .h file:

.... UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>

In your .m file, add this to the method you call fo the date picker:

[yourTextField resignFirstResponder];

This will prevent the textfield from blinking.

Answer 2

What I did was to overlay another UITextField on top of the one whose cursor I wanted to hide. Then in the delegate method textFieldShouldBeginEditing I set the other textField to become first responder and returned NO.

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    if (textField.tag==TAG_OF_DUMMY_TEXTFIELD) {
        [otherField becomeFirstResponder];
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

And then in the method the date picker calls:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@YOUR_DATE_FORMAT];
dummyField.text = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:datePicker.date];

In Interface Builder otherField (the one with the datePicker input view) is behind dummyField (the one that hides the cursor).

Answer 3

Subclass UITextfield and Override the - (CGRect)caretRectForPosition:(UITextPosition *)position method and return CGRectZero.

- (CGRect)caretRectForPosition:(UITextPosition *)position {
    return CGRectZero;
}

Answer 4

Not the best solution, but you could also set the Opacity of the tint color to 0%.