Created by: ArtSabintsev
There exist certain situations where I, and others, may want to disallow pasting in a textfield. For instance, if I want the last 4 digits of someone's SSN, or their phone number, I only want to allow numbers in the text field. There are three ways of enforcing this condition:
- Using
UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad. - Another way, is by monitoring every character that gets entered Using
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string.- This second option an ugly way of doing it.
- Logic, coupled with passive or active alerts
However, the first two options can be circumvented by allowing data from a different field to be pasted into this field. The third option is just annoying. A cleaner, more elegant manner of implementing this feature is to disallow pasting into the textfield. This can be achieved using the canPerformAction:withSender UIResponder method. However, this method must be implemented inside a subclassed UITextField. I have done just that within JVFloatLabeledTextField .h/.m.
As I use CocoaPods to manage your repo, and I'm not wanting to subclass JVFloatLabeledTextField directly within my project (e.g., lazy), I decided to create this change and submit it to you for your evaluation.
Hopefully, I've presented my case, and that you'll consider adding this change.
Thanks for your consideration!