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kbanman
kbanman

Reputation: 4263

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.

Suggestions?

Upvotes: 165

Views: 97564

Answers (13)

HAK
HAK

Reputation: 2071

After the introduction of Style, you have to set the style to Default in IB along with setting the type to Custom to be able to disable the highlighting effect completely. Otherwise your button text will keep highlighting.

*Setting the Style to Default resets the text color to white.

Upvotes: 1

Haydn
Haydn

Reputation: 3376

Your button must have its buttonType set to Custom.

In IB you can uncheck "Highlight adjusts image".

Programmatically you can use theButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;

Similar options are available for the "disabled" state as well.

Upvotes: 336

yuanjilee
yuanjilee

Reputation: 607

Swift 3+

button.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false

button.adjustsImageWhenDisabled = false

Upvotes: 4

Khushboo
Khushboo

Reputation: 181

make your button Type - "Custom" and Uncheck - Highlighted Adjust image and you are done.

Upvotes: 3

Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 850

I had a similar issue and found that "unchecking" Clears Graphic Content in interface builder fixed my issue

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Upvotes: 2

maddy
maddy

Reputation: 4111

just two things:

UIButton *btnTransparentComponent = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
btnTransparentComponent.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;

Upvotes: 2

János
János

Reputation: 35038

avoid to set UIButton's Line Break to Clip, use instead the standard Truncate Middle

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Upvotes: -4

Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad

Reputation: 1013

In addition to above answer of unchecking "highlight adjusts image" in IB, make sure that button type is set CUSTOM.

Upvotes: 41

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 231

button.adjustsImageWhenDisabled = NO;

is equally useful for having your own appearance of a disabled button.

Upvotes: 23

KETAN
KETAN

Reputation: 481

adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;

Upvotes: 28

Manish Ahuja
Manish Ahuja

Reputation: 4517

This will work for you:

[button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button_image"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button_image_selected"] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
[button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button_image_selected"] forState:UIControlStateSelected | UIControlStateHighlighted];

3rd line is the trick here...

This works the same for setting image/backgroundImage

Upvotes: 39

therealbuckley
therealbuckley

Reputation: 31

OK here's an easy solution if this works for you, after a week of banging my head on this it finally occurred to me to just set highlighted=NO for the 1st line of the IBAction method for the TouchUpInside or TouchDown, or whatever works. For me it was fine on the TouchUpInside.

-(IBAction)selfDismiss:(id)sender {

    self.btnImage.highlighted = NO;

    NSLog(@"selfDismiss");

    etc, etc, etc.

}

Upvotes: 3

Dimitris
Dimitris

Reputation: 13660

Depending on what changes from the default to the highlighted state of the button, you can call a couple of methods to set them to what you need. So if the image changes you can do

[myButton setImage:[myButton imageForState:UIControlStateNormal] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

If the text changes you can do

[myButton setTitle:[myButton titleForState:UIControlStateNormal] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

other similar functions:

- (void)setTitleColor:(UIColor *)color forState:(UIControlState)state

- (void)setTitleShadowColor:(UIColor *)color forState:(UIControlState)state

Upvotes: 5

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