uibutton

Manually setting a UIButton state

I UIButton using + buttonWithType: What I need to figure out is how to manually change the button state. There are times when I need it to be set to "disabled." I read through the UIButton documentation but I cannot seem to find anything about manually setting a button state. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. ...

How do I create a grid of icons like the iPhone home screen?

How should I go about creating a UI similar to the Springboard (home screen) on the iPhone? I'd like a grid of evenly spaced buttons with images where I can respond to the button tap. Is the UITable a good fit? Should I use a plain UIView and position the icons manually in DrawRect? Is there an alternative that will automatically evenly...

How do you add multi-line text to a UIButton?

I have the following code... UILabel *buttonLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:targetButton.bounds]; buttonLabel.text = @"Long text string"; [targetButton addSubview:buttonLabel]; [targetButton bringSubviewToFront:buttonLabel]; ...the idea being that I can have multi-line text for the button, but the text is always obscured by the...

Objective C IBOutlets

In cases where multiple buttons call an IBOutlet, can the IBOutlet determine which button was pressed? edit: All fixed and wired up. key point: Object ID is not sender tag! Tag is a standalone value on the first page of the attributes. - (IBAction)buttonPressed:(id)sender { switch ( [sender tag] ) { case 109: ...

iPhone UIScrollview with UIButtons - how to recreate springboard?

I'm trying to create a springboard-like interface within my app. I'm trying to use UIButtons added to a UIScrollView. The problem I'm running in to is with the buttons not passing any touches to the UIScrollView - if I try to flick/slide and happen to press on the button it doesn't register for the UIScrollView, but if I flick the space ...

iPhone app Action Button

Hi, I need to add an action button in my iPhone application. When that one is clicked the UIActionSheet with buttons need to be popped up. Can any one tell me how to add an action button? - means is there any in built action button for iPhone app? or do we need to create a new button with image? Thanks in advance! ...

Persistent rightBarButtonItem Property of UINavigationItem

This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to keep a right UIBarButtonItem across multiple views managed by a UINavigationController? I have a progression of views that often share the same right UIBarButtonItem, but when I push a new view to my UINavigationController, I have to redefine the button every time, even if it hasn't ch...

UIButton: Making the hit area larger than the default hit area.

Hello, I have a question dealing with UIButton and it's hit area. I am using the Info Dark button in interface builder, but I am finding that the hit area is not large enough for some people's fingers. Is there a way to increase the hit area of a button either programmatically or in Interface Builder without changing the size of the I...

How to override -drawrect in UIButton subclass?

HI. I need to write some text over a custom button. So I subclassed UIButton. In -drawrect, I write the text I need. The problem is that the text ends up under the button. After I write my text, UIButton's drawrect goes ahead and draws on top of me. I am not even calling [super drawrect: rect] even though I was anticipating calling...

How to get uicontrols by their ID in iphone dev environment

I'm just starting to learn the iphone API, and I've done plenty of windows programming, and I'm sure there's a way, given the object passed to an event handler, to identify its object id or tag or something. I created a series of UIButtons in the interface builder, and each has an object ID. But I just can't see where in the iphone API ...

Iphone UIButton not working in nested UIViews

This is so damn simple im sure! Im missing something and im exhausted from trying to fix it. hopefully someone can help. The Button in CharacterView.m works but the button nested down in CharacterMale.m does not. I'm not using IB everything is done progmatically. What would cause one button to work and other not? //////////////////////...

When using drawRect for UIButton subclass...

When using drawRect for a UIButton subclass, I never seem to get called to draw the button when hiighlighted. Do I need to call setNeedsDisplay for my button in my touch events? ...

selector keyword

-(void)clicketbutton{ UIButton *mybutton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; [mybutton setTitle:@"Click here" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [mybutton addTarget:self action:@selector(displayvalue:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; } -(void)displayvalue:(id)sender{ UIButton *resultebutton= [UIButton buttonWithT...

uibutton events

hi Drears // starting my code int col=10; UIButton*mbybutton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; [mbybutton setTitle:@"Click Here" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //------------------- [self performSelector:@selector(fullscreen:) withObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:col] afterDelay:0.2]; //-...

Getting title of UIButton in event handler

I create a button and set title as "Click here". When I press that button I want to get that button title and log it. Here's my code, where am I going wrong? -(void)clicketbutton { UIButton *mybutton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; [mybutton setTitle:@"Click here" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [mybutton ad...

Way to make a UIButton continuously fire during a press-and-hold situation?

You know how Mario just keeps running to the right when you press and hold the right-button on the D-Pad? In the same manner, I want my UIButton to continuously fire its action for the duration that it is held down. Is this possible for a UIButton? If not, is this possible to do with a UIImageView by overriding a touch handling method in...

multiline uibutton

how to set a multiline as title of a UIButton in iPhone programming pls help me .. thanks and regards .. ...

How can I change the default color of the button on iPhone?

How can I change the default color of the button on iPhone? ...

Uibutton events

-(void)mybuttonclick{ UGFloat p=120; for(int i=0;i<3;i++){ UIButton *aa = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; if(i==0){ NSString *name=[[NSString alloc]initWithString@"ZERO"]; }else if(i==1){ NSString *name=[[NSString alloc]initWithString@"ONE"]; }else if(i==2){ NSString *nam...

UIButton: Need a circle hit area

Ok I have 6 custom UIButtons. Their normal state image are all circles images. They are all spaced out equally but all the circles touch each other. The problem with the custom UIbutton (which has a circle image on it), is that the hit area of that button is square, and the corners of this square overlaps the hitarea of the other custom...