When we originally developed SCWB, we had to suppress the default keyboard so we could provide our own with the custom buttons necessary to do what the app needs to do. iOS 3.2 threw us a bit of a curveball. It happened again with iOS 4.

In iOS 3.0.x thru 3.1.x it was a bit of a hack. With the release of iOS 3.2 for the iPad, Apple decided to change how that hack had to work, so we scrambled (and by we, I mean Develish) to find a new hack. We got that corrected ahead of the release of the iPad. With the release of iOS 4, Apple changed this once again, but in a good way. They actually provided an accepted method to suppress the keyboard. Very cool. We again were ready in time for the release of iOS 4. What is not so cool, is the troubles this led to in updating the app on some iPads (We still can't figure out why it worked on some and not on others. No common thread at all) and legacy devices, like the iPod Touch 1G.

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