ios - Objective C Subclass UITextField to copy only -

i'm trying create class makes read text field allows user copy contents. here code:

copyonly.h

#import <uikit/uikit.h>  @interface copyonly : uitextfield  @end 

copyonly.m

#import "copyonly.h"  @implementation copyonly  - (id)initwithframe:(cgrect)frame {     self = [super initwithframe:frame];     if (self) {         // initialization code         [self attachtaphandler];     }     return self; }  - (void) attachtaphandler {     [self setuserinteractionenabled:yes];     uigesturerecognizer *touchy = [[uitapgesturerecognizer alloc] initwithtarget:self action:@selector(handletap:)];     [self addgesturerecognizer:touchy]; }  - (bool) canperformaction: (sel) action withsender: (id) sender {     return (action == @selector(copy:)); }  - (void) handletap: (uigesturerecognizer*) recognizer {     [self becomefirstresponder];     uimenucontroller *menu = [uimenucontroller sharedmenucontroller];     [menu settargetrect:self.frame inview:self.superview];     [menu setmenuvisible:yes animated:yes]; }  - (void)copy:(id)sender {     uipasteboard *board = [uipasteboard generalpasteboard];     [board setstring:self.text];     self.highlighted = no;     [self resignfirstresponder]; }  - (bool) canbecomefirstresponder {     return yes; }  @end 

this works great, keyboard coming up. don't want keyboard come up.

i tried adding initwithframe:

uiview* nokeyboard = [[uiview alloc] initwithframe:cgrectmake(0, 0, 1, 1)]; self.inputview = nokeyboard; 

this not give me result i'm expecting. know how can this?

extending on comment. accomplished using uitextview (not uitextfield) editable property set no.

uitextview* tf = [[uitextview alloc] initwithframe:cgrectmake(50, 50, 200, 50)]; tf.editable = no; tf.text = @"hey test!"; [self.view addsubview:tf];