Question

I have a dynamically created list of labels and I am using GestureRecognizer for each of the labels to detect touches/click on them. I couldn’t use UIButton as I wanted to pass some text which is unique to each label to the touch event handler and UIButton would not allow text to be passed as userinfo. I cannot use UIButton.tag to pass the additional info.

Now I want the UIButton like glow effect on touch on my UIlabel. If there are other ways to notify a user that a label was touched, that work too. I was alo thinking of using some kind of quick animation or jiggling effect. Any ideas or workarounds?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Why dont you create buttons programmatically and make the button type as custom. Like so –

UIButton *sampleButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[sampleButton setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"redButton.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:10.0 topCapHeight:0.0] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[sampleButton setTitle:@"My Button"];
[sampleButton addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonPressed) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:sampleButton];

Here we have defined what the button should look like UIControlStateNormal. You can define what it should look like for UIControlStateHighlighted.

What i want to say is that using uibuttons you can get what you need. Dont have to use uilabels.