iphone - Multi-line TextField (similar to SMS) and / or 'Done' button in UITextView

Question

I've been researching this for a few days now, and would appreciate a little help. Is there any way to generate a multi-line UITextField like Apple use in the SMS application? The useful thing about this control is that it has the 'sunk' appearance that makes it clear that it is a text entry box, but at the same time, it expands on each new-line character.

Failing that, if I'm forced to use a UITextView, can anyone advise how best to dismiss the keyboard ? Both the 'Done' and the 'Go' buttons just appear to generate newline characters (' '). This seems wrong to me - surely at least one of these should generate a different character, so that I can still allow for newline characters, but also dismiss my keyboard on a specific key press.

Am I missing something simple here ?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Maybe you can build upon a class I wrote? It's the same as tttexteditor, without the ugly glitches: http://www.hanspinckaers.com/multi-line-uitextview-similar-to-sms