Swift: using UIDatePicker as UITextField inputView not updating
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Your handleDatePicker
method is instantiating a new DatePicker
each time it's called. You need to add a parameter to the function to pass in the sender (the DatePicker
created in func dp
)
@IBAction func dp(_ sender: UITextField) {
let datePickerView = UIDatePicker()
datePickerView.datePickerMode = .date
sender.inputView = datePickerView
datePickerView.addTarget(self, action: #selector(handleDatePicker(sender:)), for: .valueChanged)
}
@objc func handleDatePicker(sender: UIDatePicker) {
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy"
textfieldjobdate.text = dateFormatter.string(from: sender.date)
}
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Updated on August 02, 2022Comments
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agf119105 almost 2 years
I have a textfield and when it is selected a datepicker pops up instead of a keyboard, but it only updates with todays date the first time. The user changes the date, but the textfield does not continue to update. What is the problem?
This is how I call the Datepicker and control the date being inputted into my textfield:
@IBAction func dp(sender: UITextField) { var DatePickerView : UIDatePicker = UIDatePicker() DatePickerView.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerMode.Date textfieldjobdate.inputView = DatePickerView DatePickerView.addTarget(self, action: Selector("handleDatePicker"), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.ValueChanged) } func handleDatePicker() { var DatePickerView : UIDatePicker = UIDatePicker() var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter() dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy" textfieldjobdate.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(DatePickerView.date) }