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Spanky
Spanky

Reputation: 5000

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:@"vc2:v1" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo addTarget:self action:@selector(goToOne) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:btnTwo];

but don't see what will set the image for it.

Upvotes: 215

Views: 319260

Answers (12)

ArNo
ArNo

Reputation: 2648

For swift 5+

let image = UIImage(named: "icons-multiply")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
btn.setImage(image, for: .normal)

Upvotes: 1

Mike W
Mike W

Reputation: 4428

Objective-C

UIImage *btnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
[btnTwo setImage:btnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Swift 5.1

let btnImage = UIImage(named: "image")
btnTwo.setImage(btnImage , for: .normal)

Upvotes: 431

Frank Eno
Frank Eno

Reputation: 2659

Swift 3 version (butt_img must be an Image Set into Assets.xcassets or Images.xcassets folder in Xcode):

btnTwo.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: "butt_img"), for: .normal)
btnTwo.setTitle("My title", for: .normal)

Anyway, if you want the image to be scaled to fill the button's size, you may add a UIImageView over it and assign it your image:

let img = UIImageView()
img.frame = btnTwo.frame
img.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
img.clipsToBounds = true
img.image = UIImage(named: "butt_img")
btnTwo.addSubview(img)

Upvotes: 3

Leemboy
Leemboy

Reputation: 31

-(void)buttonTouched:(id)sender
{
    UIButton *btn = (UIButton *)sender;

    if( [[btn imageForState:UIControlStateNormal] isEqual:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Locked.png"]])
    {
        [btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Unlocked.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        // other statements....
    }
    else
    {
        [btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Locked.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        // other statements....
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Peter Schultz
Peter Schultz

Reputation: 219

Don't worry so much framing the button from code, you can do that on the storyboard. This worked for me, one line...more simple.

[self.button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed: @"yourPic.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Upvotes: 3

Ajay Sharma
Ajay Sharma

Reputation: 4517

You can put the image in either of the way:

UIButton *btnTwo = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect]; 
btnTwo.frame = CGRectMake(40, 140, 240, 30);
[btnTwo setTitle:@"vc2:v1" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo addTarget:self 
           action:@selector(goToOne) 
 forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];


[btnTwo setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"name.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

//OR setting as background image

[btnTwo setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"name.png"] 
                  forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[self.view addSubview:btnTwo];

Upvotes: 9

jrasmusson
jrasmusson

Reputation: 276

Before this would work for me I had to resize the button frame explicitly based on the image frame size.

UIImage *listImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"list_icon.png"];
UIButton *listButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];

// get the image size and apply it to the button frame
CGRect listButtonFrame = listButton.frame;
listButtonFrame.size = listImage.size;
listButton.frame = listButtonFrame;

[listButton setImage:listImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[listButton addTarget:self.navigationController.parentViewController 
               action:@selector(revealToggle:) 
     forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *jobsButton = 
  [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:listButton];

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = jobsButton;

Upvotes: 22

Gaurav Gilani
Gaurav Gilani

Reputation: 1584

UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
btn.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 150, 44);
[btn setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"buttonimage.png"] 
               forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btn addTarget:self 
     action:@selector(btnSendComment_pressed:) 
     forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:btn];

Upvotes: 10

Sruit A.Suk
Sruit A.Suk

Reputation: 7273

In case of Swift User

// case of normal image
let image1 = UIImage(named: "your_image_file_name_without_extension")!
button1.setImage(image1, forState: UIControlState.Normal) 

// in case you don't want image to change when "clicked", you can leave code below
// case of when button is clicked
let image2 = UIImage(named: "image_clicked")!
button1.setImage(image2, forState: UIControlState.Highlight)

Upvotes: 12

Alex Cio
Alex Cio

Reputation: 6052

I was looking for a solution to add an UIImage to my UIButton. The problem was just it displays the image bigger than needed. Just helped me with this:

_imageViewBackground = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:rectImageView];
_imageViewBackground.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"gradientBackgroundPlain"];
[self addSubview:_imageViewBackground];
[self insertSubview:_imageViewBackground belowSubview:self.label];
_imageViewBackground.hidden = YES;

Every time I want to display my UIImageView I just set the var hidden to YES or NO. There might be other solutions but I got confused so many times with this stuff and this solved it and I didn't need to deal with internal stuff UIButton is doing in background.

Upvotes: 3

Azhar
Azhar

Reputation: 20670

You can do it like this

[btnTwo setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Upvotes: 10

leviathan
leviathan

Reputation: 11161

Mike's solution will just show the image, but any title set on the button will not be visible, because you can either set the title or the image.

If you want to set both (your image and title) use the following code:

btnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
[btnTwo setBackgroundImage:btnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo setTitle:@"Title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Upvotes: 58

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