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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:27:26+00:00

I’m attempting to create a custom button using a background image in Interface Builder.

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I’m attempting to create a custom button using a background image in Interface Builder. The image has stretchable and non-stretchable parts so that it can be resized.

IB exposes the Stretching properties to allow for this, yet no values I put in affect how the button appears. It is always fully stretched to fill the size of the frame.

Is this this a unsupported feature in IB or in UIButton perhaps?

http://img.skitch.com/20100103-rjabkq2c2jkqynw47crxepdtwb.jpg

(Note: The above stretch values are not the ones that will work with the image properly, but just the values I was messing with at the time of the screenshot)

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  1. Editorial Team

    In the example in Beginning iPhone 3 Development only the UIImage leftCapWidth and topCapHeight are used, and the image is created/set programmatically, so that’s an alternate method if contentStretch isn’t working.

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