Trying to add a UITextField to my JUCE iOS app

MacOSX and iOS
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I am trying to add a UITextField component to my JUCE app instead of using a JUCE textbox as I want to be able to copy/paste, auto-fill, access my passwords, etc. I know that this is possible because I’ve seen it in other JUCE apps, and that I can use getWindowHandle() to access the native window handle for the component, but I’m not sure how to go from there… Can anyone help me out?

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I agree it would be helpful to have a little more guidance on how to include native UIKit element into a JUCE window. There’s lots of guides on plugins but doing mobile / iOS with JUCE is a little less documented. I’ve seen some ADC talks on this but they seems to require a lot of boiler to get this working.

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Following…
Been wanting to get native IOS stuff in my UI for awhile

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Have you taken a look at UIViewComponent?

You’ll need to do it in a .mm file (Objective C++) but should be fairly straightforward to create a UITextView, although I’ve not actually done this before, I assume you’ll need some way to get the text to your JUCE app.

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Look at this thread Displaying an UITableView in a JUCE iOS app?. Attached code from last comment works.

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Hmm. This looks very useful but I can’t seem to get it to work! You said you got it working? How did you actually implement it in a JUCE component because I can’t call addAndMakeVisible() and IOSPopupMenu::showMenu() doesn’t seem to work either. I don’t know obj-c at all so it’s hard to decipher what’s going on in the mm file :confused:

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ios_popup_menu.h (699 Bytes)
ios_popup_menu.mm (11.6 KB)

I edited code bit to get it to compile. There is part with Juce’s conditional imports (#ifdef) which I cannot get to work. But this code still should work. Just use it as normal Juce PopupMenu::showMenu().
It would be nice if Juce had more native views (platform specific) at least for iOS. I don’t really like how scrolling work in ListBox for example. I most likely will try to replace them with UITableViewController in the app I’m working on right now.

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Hmm. I’m still getting this error Invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'IOSPopupMenu::Impl', and I can’t see an implementation for Impl anywhere… anyways, I’m not actually looking to implement an IOS popup menu, but rather a native IOS TextField and using this popup menu as an example… so either way this is very helpful :slight_smile:

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