This code is dangerous, and likely to break on minor system updates. Use at your own risk.
This project shows how to detect when the user hits the backspace
key at the beginning of a UITextField. There is no publicly exposed
mechanism for doing this, so HSBackspaceFriendlyTextField uses some
runtime wizardry to subclass an internal UIKit class in order to detect
the backspace keypress.
This mechanism is obviously not Apple-approved. I have tested it on iOS 5.0. I make no guarantee about compatibility with future iOS releases, compatibility with the App Store Review Guidelines, or anything else. I've tried to make it fail gracefully, but I cannot anticipate everything Apple might do in the future.
The license on this code is quite simple:
- Use it however you like.
- No attribution required.
- No contributor to this code shall be held liable for any defects, faults, etc. relating to the use of this code. Use at your own risk.