How to disable the highlight control state of a UIButton?
IosCocoa TouchUibuttonUikitUicontrolIos Problem Overview
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?
Ios Solutions
Solution 1 - Ios
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.
Solution 2 - Ios
In addition to above answer of unchecking "highlight adjusts image" in IB, make sure that button type is set CUSTOM.
Solution 3 - Ios
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
Solution 4 - Ios
adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;
Solution 5 - Ios
button.adjustsImageWhenDisabled = NO;
is equally useful for having your own appearance of a disabled button.
Solution 6 - Ios
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
Solution 7 - Ios
For Swifty Developer -
yourButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false
Solution 8 - Ios
Swift 3+
button.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false
button.adjustsImageWhenDisabled = false
Solution 9 - Ios
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.
}
Solution 10 - Ios
make your button Type - "Custom" and Uncheck - Highlighted Adjust image and you are done.
Solution 11 - Ios
just two things:
UIButton *btnTransparentComponent = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
btnTransparentComponent.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;
Solution 12 - Ios
I had a similar issue and found that "unchecking" Clears Graphic Content in interface builder fixed my issue
Solution 13 - Ios
avoid to set UIButton's Line Break to Clip, use instead the standard Truncate Middle
