UITextFieldDelegate != IBAction backgroundTap

The scope of this question is IPhone 3.1 sdk (app running in simulator still)

I have a table view that has a cell with a UITextField in that cell. The table view is grouped, and has one section with just a couple fields. Im NOT using IB so backgroundTap is out of the question (as far as i can tell at least). When i click the text field, keyboard shows. Hiding it is still troublesome. Ive pulled the UITextFieldDelegate into the mix to hide the keyboard but the textFieldShouldEndEditing m开发者_如何学运维ethod doesnt seem to fire when the background is tapped (when i mean background, im tapping outside of the grouped table view section). First off, should it?

textFieldShouldReturn fires with no problem and i can resign at this point but shouldnt i be able to resign if focus shifts away from that control?

Any help is much appreciated -me

Generally you'll only stop editing a field when you:

• hit the "Done" or action button on the keyboard
• begin editing another field
• exit the view
• have another button on screen that removes focus

From any of these, you can call -[textField resignFirstResponder] to dismiss the keyboard and call your -textFieldShouldEndEditing: method. There's no reason that just tapping on a non-active part of the screen should dismiss the keyboard.