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Reputation: 241

Swift. Changing multiple UIButtons with IBOutlet

So, I have 20 UI buttons on a single viewcontroller. I also have 2 other buttons there that will change the currentTitle or background color of different groups of those buttons. (for example, pressing one of those 2 buttons will change the color of 10 other buttons, while pressing the other button will change the background of 15 of those buttons.)

Am I doomed to having to create 20 different IBOutlets like:

@IBOutlet weak var button1: UIButton!

@IBOutlet weak var button2: UIButton!

@IBOutlet weak var button3: UIButton!

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and then having to write an additional 25 lines of:

button1!.setTitleColor(UIColor.redColor(), forState: .Normal()

button2!.setTitleColor(UIColor.redColor(), forState: .Normal()

button3!.setTitleColor(UIColor.redColor(), forState: .Normal()

Surely theres an easier way to do this? I can't link more than one UI with IBOutlet, and changing the tags for the buttons don't do much either because I still have to write the darn things down 25 times regardless.

Is it possible to put those buttons into groups where I can write a single line of code to change ALL things in that group?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1255

Answers (1)

i a m a g a m
i a m a g a m

Reputation: 152

Set your button tags in series like 101 to 125 and on click of any button perform this operation

for(UIButton *button in <parent view of buttons>.subviews){
   if(button.tag >= 101 && button.tag <= 125){
      button.setTitleColor(UIColor.redColor(), forState: .Normal()
   }
}

For Swift

for subview in self.createBugView.subviews {

     if let button = subview as? UIButton {
        // this is a button
       if(button.tag >= 101 && button.tag <= 125){      
             button.setTitleColor(UIColor.red, for: .normal)
            }
        }
     }

Upvotes: 3

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