Questions tagged [uibutton]
UIButton is a subclass of UIView for displaying buttons in iOS. It implements the target action paradigm to send events to the controller layer.
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How do I create a basic UIButton programmatically?
How can I create a basic UIButton programmatically? For example in my view controller, when executing the viewDidLoad method, three UIButtons will be created dynamically and its layout or properties ...
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How can I set the title of a UIButton as left-aligned?
I need to display an email address on the left side of a UIButton, but it is being positioned to the centre.
Is there any way to set the alignment to the left side of a UIButton?
This is my current ...
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Set UIButton title UILabel font size programmatically
I need to set the font size of the title UILabel of a UIButton programmatically.
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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 ...
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How do I put the image on the right side of the text in a UIButton?
I don't want to use a subview if I can avoid it. I want a UIButton with a background image, text, and an image in it. Right now, when I do that, the image is on the left side of the text. The ...
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UIButton remove all target-actions
I have added multiple target-action-forControlEvents: to a UIButton. I'd like to remove all of these in one go without deallocating anything. I will then set new targets.
Is this possible and how do ...
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Color Tint UIButton Image
I noticed that when I place a white or black UIImage into a UISegmentedControl it automatically color masks it to match the tint of the segmented control. I thought this was really cool, and was ...
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How to change font of UIButton with Swift
I am trying to change the font of a UIButton using Swift...
myButton.font = UIFont(name: "...", 10)
However .font is deprecated and I'm not sure how to change the font otherwise.
Any suggestions?
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Aligning text and image on UIButton with imageEdgeInsets and titleEdgeInsets
Historic question. Note that 15 years later, .imagePadding is the space between the image and label.
Original question:
I would like to place an icon left of the two lines of text such that there's ...
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Changing text of UIButton programmatically swift
Simple question here. I have a UIButton, currencySelector, and I want to programmatically change the text. Here's what I have:
currencySelector.text = "foobar"
Xcode gives me the error "Expected ...
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How to create a button programmatically?
How do I programmatically create graphical elements (like a UIButton) in Swift? I tried to create and add button into a view, but wasn't able to.
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How can I make a button have a rounded border in Swift?
I'm building an app using swift in the latest version of Xcode 6, and would like to know how I can modify my button so that it can have a rounded border that I could adjust myself if needed. Once that'...
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How to change the background color of a UIButton while it's highlighted?
At some point in my app I have a highlighted UIButton (for example when a user has his finger on the button) and I need to change the background color while the button is highlighted (so while the ...
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How to stop unwanted UIButton animation on title change?
In iOS 7 my UIButton titles are animating in and out at the wrong time - late. This problem does not appear on iOS 6. I'm just using:
[self setTitle:text forState:UIControlStateNormal];
I would ...
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Autolayout - intrinsic size of UIButton does not include title insets
If I have a UIButton arranged using autolayout, its size adjusts nicely to fit its content.
If I set an image as button.image, the instrinsic size again seems to account for this.
However, if I ...
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Detecting which UIButton was pressed in a UITableView
I have a UITableView with 5 UITableViewCells. Each cell contains a UIButton which is set up as follows:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)...
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Setting an image for a UIButton in code
How do you set the image for a UIButton in code?
I have this:
UIButton *btnTwo = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
btnTwo.frame = CGRectMake(40, 140, 240, 30);
[btnTwo setTitle:@"...
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How to adjust an UIButton's imageSize?
How can I adjust the image size of the UIButton? I am setting the image like this:
[myLikesButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-heart.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
However ...
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How can I change UIButton title color?
I create a button programmatically..........
button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(aMethod:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
[...
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how to programmatically fake a touch event to a UIButton?
I'm writing some unit tests and, because of the nature of this particular app, it's important that I get as high up the UI chain as possible. So, what I'd like to do is programmatically trigger a ...
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How to round the corners of a button
I have a rectangle image (jpg) and want to use it to fill the background of a button with rounded corner in xcode.
I wrote the following:
UIButton *button = [[UIButton buttonWithType:...
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UIButton: Making the hit area larger than the default hit area
I have a question dealing with UIButton and its 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 ...
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UIButton title text color
I'm setting text color for UIButton
headingButton.titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:36/255.0
green:71/255.0
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Label under image in UIButton
I'm trying to create a button which has some text beneath the icon (sorta like the app buttons) however it seems to be quite difficult to achieve. Any ideas how can I go about get the text to display ...
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Setting UIButton image results in blue button in iOS 7
On iOS 6 SDK I wrote the following lines of code to display an image inside a button:
NSURL *thumbURL2 = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/thumbs/2.jpg"];
NSData *thumbData2 = [NSData ...
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Disabled UIButton not faded or grey
In my iPhone app, I have a UIButton which I have created in Interface Builder. I can successfully enable and disable it like this in my code ...
sendButton.enabled = YES;
or
sendButton.enabled = NO;...
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How to disable the highlight control state of a UIButton?
I've got a UIButton that, when selected, shouldn't change state when being touched.
The default behaviour is for it to be in UIControlStateHighlighted while being touched, and this is making me angry.
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UIButton: how to center an image and a text using imageEdgeInsets and titleEdgeInsets?
If I put only an image in a button and set the imageEdgeInsets more close to the top, the image stays centered and all works as expected:
[button setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[...
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UIButton: set image for selected-highlighted state
I set an images for button's states Normal,Highlighted and Selected, but when the button in selected state and I press/highlight it I didn't see my highlighted image but just grayed picture.
Is it ...
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Creating a UIImage from a UIColor to use as a background image for UIButton [duplicate]
I'm creating a colored image like this:
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
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Make a UIButton programmatically in Swift
I am trying to build UIs programmatically with Swift.
How can I get this action working?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, ...
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UIButton Image + Text IOS
I need a UIButton with image & text. Image should be in the top & text comes under the image both should be clickable.
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Underlining text in UIButton
Can anyone suggest how to underline the title of a UIButton ? I have a UIButton of Custom type, and I want the Title to be underlined, but the Interface Builder does not provide any option to do so.
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How to set the title text color of UIButton?
I tried changing the colors of the text for a button, but it's still staying white.
isbeauty = UIButton()
isbeauty.setTitle("Buy", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
isbeauty.titleLabel?.textColor = ...
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How to make UIButton's text alignment center? Using IB
I can't set the title of UIButton using IB as center. My title is multi line.It is giving like this one
But I want like this one
I have given space in this but I don't want to do that. As it is ...
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iOS: UIButton resize according to text length
In interface builder, holding Command + = will resize a button to fit its text. I was wondering if this was possible to do programmatically before the button was added to the view.
UIButton *button =...
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Get button click inside UITableViewCell
I have a view controller with a table view and a separate nib for the table cell template. The cell template has some buttons. I want to access the button click along with the index of the cell ...
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How to change UIButton image in Swift
I am trying to change the image of a UIButton using Swift...
What should I do
This is OBJ-C code.but I don't know with Swift:
[playButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"play.png"] forState:...
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How to make a simple rounded button in Storyboard?
I just started learning iOS development, cannot find how to make simple rounded button. I find resources for old versions. Do I need to set a custom background for a button? In Android, I would just ...
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Using Tint color on UIImageView
I have my own subclass of UIButton. I add UIImageView on it and add an image. I would like to paint it over the image with a tint color but it doesn't work.
So far I have:
- (id)initWithFrame:(...
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Is it possible to adjust x,y position for titleLabel of UIButton?
Is it possible to adjust the x,y position for the titleLabel of a UIButton?
Here is my code:
UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
[btn setFrame:CGRectMake(0....
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Attach parameter to button.addTarget action in Swift
I am trying to pass an extra parameter to the buttonClicked action, but cannot work out what the syntax should be in Swift.
button.addTarget(self, action: "buttonClicked:", forControlEvents: ...
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iPhone UIButton - image position
I have a UIButton with text "Explore the app" and UIImage (>)
In Interface Builder it looks like:
[ (>) Explore the app ]
But I need to place this UIImage AFTER the text:
[ Explore the app (>)...
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Get position of UIView in respect to its superview's superview
I have a UIView, in which I have arranged UIButtons. I want to find the positions of those UIButtons.
I am aware that buttons.frame will give me the positions, but it will give me positions only ...
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Swift - UIButton with two lines of text
I was wondering if it is possible to create a UIButton with two lines of text. I need each line to have a different font size. The first line will be 17 point and the second will be 11 point. I've ...
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scale Image in an UIButton to AspectFit?
I want to add an image to a UIButton, and also want to scale my image to fit with the UIButton (make image smaller). Please show me how to do it.
This is what I have tried, but it does't work:
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Disable a Button
I want to disable a button (UIButton) on iOS after it is clicked. I am new to developing for iOS but I think the equivalent code on objective - C is this:
button.enabled = NO;
But I couldn't do that ...
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UIButton won't go to Aspect Fit in iPhone
I have a couple UIButtons, and in IB they're set to Aspect Fit, but for some reason they're always stretching. Is there something else you have to set? I tried all the different view modes and none ...
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How do you add an action to a button programmatically in xcode
I know how to add an IBAction to a button by dragging from the interface builder, but I want to add the action programmatically to save time and to avoid switching back and forth constantly. The ...
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Problems with corner radius and drop shadow for button
I'm trying to create a button with rounded corners and a drop shadow. No matter how I switch up, the button will not display correctly. I've tried masksToBounds = false and masksToBounds = true, but ...
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