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fuzzygoat
fuzzygoat

Reputation: 26223

iPhone, Stylish Buttons?

I am trying to work out (or find) a button that looks half decent for use in my app. In the image below I have two buttons at the bottom, the default button (interfaceBuilder) and one using two png images from the Apple UICatalog.

I am a little shocked that apple did not include something a little more stylish in IB. I assume that my only option is to find/use/make a suitable replacement button image. Before I fire up Photoshop does anyone know of any replacement buttons I might use?

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gary

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1149

Answers (3)

MrMage
MrMage

Reputation: 7487

I recommend having a look into the Three20 library. It provides a TTButton class that can be customized using TTStyles, and its very easy to create your own styles. In the Three20 example app, there are a lot of styles available already, especially styles for navigation bar buttons. They serve as great examples.

Upvotes: 0

Brad Larson
Brad Larson

Reputation: 170309

If you want to try out some button designs, you can draw them in Opacity, which includes a template for iPhone buttons. Opacity can output the button as a stretchable PNG for use in the button or as a UIView / UIButton subclass with all the Quartz drawing calls within it.

Upvotes: 1

user189804
user189804

Reputation:

What you can do is use a segmented control with just one segment - you get the shading you want and it's not much harder to use than a standard button.

Upvotes: 3

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