Keeping a UIButton selected after a touch

Question

After my user clicks a button, I\'d like that button to stay pushed during the time that I perform a network operation. When the network operation is complete, I want the bu

Answer 1

Here is a C# / MonoTouch (Xamarin.iOS) implementation using approaches presented above. It assumes you have set the Highlighted image state already, and configures the selected and selected|highlighted states to use the same image.

var selected = button.BackgroundImageForState(UIControlState.Highlighted);
button.SetBackgroundImage(selected, UIControlState.Selected);
button.SetBackgroundImage(selected, UIControlState.Selected | UIControlState.Highlighted);
button.TouchUpInside += delegate
{
    NSTimer.CreateScheduledTimer(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(0), delegate
    {
        button.Highlighted = true;
        NSTimer.CreateScheduledTimer(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(200), delegate
        {
            button.Highlighted = false;
        });
    });
};