Weird - keyboard's still on-screen

iOS Programming (7th Edition) 12. Navigation Controllers
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I followed the steps on p.256.

But when I ran the app and went to the detail screen, I tapped outside a text field (labels, the date value, empty space), and the keyboard sticks around.

Did anyone else see this?

2

Make sure your Action connection is in the correct format as the book and that you added listing 12.6:

@IBAction func backgroundTapped(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
view.endEditing(true)

3

@Caps5150 I ran into the same problem. Did you find a solution?

4

I just realized I dragged the tap gesture recognizer on the date label instead of the background. Now that it’s changed, works great.

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I’m stuck here too. I’ve confirmed that my Tap Gesture Recognizer has a Sent Action for backgroundTapped: to go to the Detail View Controller, and DVC has the following for the function:

    @IBAction func backgroundTapped(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
        view.endEditing(true)
    }

I know that view.endEditing(true) works because I connected it to viewWillDisappear, so I started debugging and set a breakpoint on the backgroundTapped function–which doesn’t break whenever I click off of a text field.

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I am having the same problem and did the same checking. It appears that I can’t leave the text fields’ focus on the simulator–I can’t make a click anywhere except in the text fields.