Link a UILabel and a UIButton in IB

Question

Hi,

During a time in my app - I make a button a button not enabled

myButton.enabled = NO;

The problem is that I've made my button in IB with an image, and just a UILabel overtop of it. The label does not grey out when the buttons does.

In IB - is there a way to link the label to the button?

Answer 1

You can add another outlet in your code, i.e. IBOutlet UILabel *yourLabel;

Then link this outlet to your label, same procedure as linking the button.

Answer 2

This is not possible without you doing the linking action yourself, as @Eiko rightly pointed out.

It sounds like you need to make your image the background-image of the button, so you can have your label as the button text, like it is intended to be used. Then you can specify colors, fonts & images for all 4 possible states.

If you decide to invent the wheel yourself, by keeping button and label as separate objects, you will have to invent everything around it as well.