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DBD
DBD

Reputation: 23223

Make a UIButton background image larger than frame

I'm trying to make a UIButton with a background image where the image is larger than the button frame.

The problem is, the UIButton automatically scales the image to fit and haven't found a way to change the behavior.

Am I missing something obvious or is it time to make a custom button?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1194

Answers (2)

seemann
seemann

Reputation: 340

Subclass UIButton and override the 

- (CGRect)backgroundRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds;

method so it returns the size you want.

TIP: Use this method to center your background as well.

Upvotes: 2

DBD
DBD

Reputation: 23223

Looks like the answer to this one is. Not possible through existing interface on UIButton.

The simplest way to implement seems to be using a custom sub class of UIButton and creating a UIImageView with the same frame as the UIButton, turn off clipping and scaling and then just capture all the setBackground methods and capture state changes to handle "normal" button interaction changing the background images.

Upvotes: 0

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