Access a UITextField using IBOutlet's?

[tarnfeld]

Is there any way of accessing a textfield that has been implemented onto the view via NKTextField?

[sunny]

any native control added to webview is a subview for it's view, you can obtain all subviews and get your textfield by checking [subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]], this solution is bad but only at the moment

[tarnfeld]

So how would i implement this, i know that to get a value i do this:

Declare in .h file
NSString *myFieldVal = [textfield text];

But how do i declaimer "[subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]"

[sunny]

well, you have webview in your obj-c/js mix code, you can call method subviews to get array of all subviews then you need to make loop
for (id subview in subviews)
{
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
NSLog("This subview is a text field")
// actions on that subview here
}
}

[tarnfeld]

Here is my code, in my appdelegate file:

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- (void)urlScheme:(NSURL *)url {
   
   for (id subview in _webView) 
   { 
      if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
         //NSLog("This subview is a text field")
         [(UITextField *)subview setText:@"MyString"];
      }
   }
   
}

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url {
   [self urlScheme:url];
    return YES;
}

So this should set the text as @"MyString" ?

[sunny]

well, if it was working you would not post this message, so no, it's no working
as I said before " you can call method subviews to get array of all subviews" and then use obtained array in the loop
NSArray* subviews = [_webView subviews];
for (id subview in subviews)
....

[tarnfeld]

Haha!
Well the app loads up now with this code, but the textfield doesn't work... alternative would be to call a function and pass it the NSUrl ?
Is this complicated?

[tarnfeld]

I think the HUGE issue im having here is... well, this is for URLSchemeing - so it is called way before the javascript shows a UITextField - so how could i modify this code to call my

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[self  urlScheme:url];

function after the

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_mainWebViewLoaded

?

[tarnfeld]

Ok,
This, it doesn't work.

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-(void)stringCaller:(NSURL *)url
{
   //URLString = [url absoluteString];
   URLString = @"Hello!";
   NSArray* subviews = [_webView subviews];
   for (id subview in subviews) 
   { 
      if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
         NSLog(@"This subview is a text field");
      }
   }
}

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url
{
   [self stringCaller:url];
   return YES;
}

If i call NSLog(@"bleee"); with the for statement commented out, it works fine by NSLogging, but for some reason it doesnt with the for? And yes i did lots of debugging and placed NSLog(@"1st"); -> 4th around the delegate to see in what order things happen, and these functions ^ are called last, even after the page is loaded... i have put this:

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while (!_mainWebViewLoaded) {
      [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:1]];
   }
   NSString *called = @"1";
   while (_mainWebViewLoaded && called!=@"0") {
      NSLog(@"loaded");
      called = @"0";
   }

So i can see when the view is loaded in comparison to the commented out code and an NSLog ^ but it always comes after.. so in reality it should work as there is indeed a UITextField subview?

Also, does this break the rules of apple's API so possible rejection?

[sunny]

probably it will be way faster if you just send me the code and I'll fix bugs sunny@nimblekit.com