title: How do you interact with the iPhone keyboard with no UITextView on the screen?
body: <p>We would like our app to display one of the built-in keyboards (specifically the numeric one) and be able to respond to key presses and such, but not via anything on the screen such as a <code>UITextView</code>.  We're actually just going to send those keystrokes out over the wire for something else and didn't feel like re-inventing the wheel with the keypad.  Think of it as us using the keypad as a matrix of UIButtons rather than us having to manually create our own, then worry about look and feel and such.</p>
  
  <p>That said,</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>How can we show the keyboard with no <code>UITextView</code> or similar controls on the screen</li>
  <li>How do we choose which one to show (again, we want the numeric one.)</li>
  <li>How can we respond to KeyDown/KeyUp/KeyPress messages or what have you.</li>
  </ol>