Truncate text to the left in a UITextField

Question

I need to trim the text on the left in a UITextField. So, for example, it will be displayed as "... blind mice, three blind mice, let's see how they run", and not "three blind mice, three blind mice, see ....". It is more important for the user to end the line rather than the beginning, so this is very important.

This is easy enough in UILabel by setting the UILabel lineBreakMode property to UILineBreakModeHeadTruncation. However, UITextField does not seem to have this capability.

Does anyone know an easy way around this?

Answer 1

Perhaps if you make the keyboard visible by calling the following code

[self.yourTextField FirstResponder];

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// Hide keyboard for Dial Pad, but show blinking cursor
UIView *dummyKeyboardView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)];
yourTextField.inputView = dummyKeyboardView;
[dummyKeyboardView release];