Slide up view when keyboard is present

[mcarrara3]

Hello, how can I make the view to 'slide up' when the keyboard appears? I need to insert data into a textfield and this gets covered by the keyboard, making it very difficult to edit. Thanks in advance!

[Omega0]

I place one of these:

class KeyView (View):
    '''
    A specialty view
    that when placed inside
    a ScrollView allows it to
    slide up automatically
    when the keyboard is opened
    '''
    def keyboard_frame_will_change(self, frame):
        x, y, w, h = frame
        #print frame
        self.superview.content_inset = (0, 0, h + buffer, 0)
        return
        if y < self.superview.height + self.superview.y:
            self.superview.content_inset = (0, 0, self.superview.height + self.superview.y - y + 6, 0)
        else:
            self.superview.content_inset = (0, 0, 0, 0)

inside my ScrollView when I want what you're describing.
It does have to be placed inside a ScrollView though, a normal View won't work.

[Omega0]

Oh, accidentally used a test version of the code. Here' style real one.

class KeyView (View):
    '''
    A specialty view
    that when placed inside
    a ScrollView allows it to
    slide up automatically
    when the keyboard is opened
    '''
    def keyboard_frame_will_change(self, frame):
        x, y, w, h = frame
        #print frame
        self.superview.content_inset = (0, 0, h + buffer, 0)

[Omega0]

The buffer variable should be however much room you want between the keyboard and the thing you are editing.

[mcarrara3]

Thanks a lot! This forum is awesome! I am learning a lot!

[Omega0]

Since the ui module is actually based on Apple's own UIKit you can look up some things like this on Apple's development forums but if you do that be prepared for a sea of technical jargon. Here you get an answer quickly from people who actually speak in layman's terms.

[mcarrara3]

Thanks!