Getting the Value of a UITextField as keystrokes are entered?

It turns out, the easiest way to do this is using Interface Builder:

• Add a IBAction (to the ViewController, say, as in this case)
• Ctrl-Click (or right click) on the UITextField in Interface Builder
• Connect the "Editing Changed" event to the File's Owner's IBAction added in the first step.

Works like a charm :) (I can't believe I spent numerous days on this, and to realize now that the solution was much simpler than I'd thought :P)

you could register an action for the event UIControlEventEditingChanges on the text field:

[nameTextField addTarget:self action:@selector(updateLabelUsingContentsOfTextField:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingChanged];

...

// TODO: error checking

- (void)updateLabelUsingContentsOfTextField:(id)sender {

    greetingLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello %@", ((UITextField *)sender).text];

}