create uibutton subclass

Question

I tried to subclass UIButton to include an activity indicator, but when i use initWithFrame:(since i\'m subclassing uibutton i\'m not using buttonWithType:) the button doesn

Answer 1

I ran into a similar situation, and agree with Jeff that you don't really need to subclass UIButton. I solved this by subclassing UIControl, and then overriding layoutSubviews to do all of the configuration of the views I wanted on my "button". It's a much more simple implementation that subclassing UIButton since there does seem to be some hidden mojo going on under the hood. My implementation looked like this:

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
    self.opaque = YES;

    self.imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    [self addSubview:self.imageView];

    self.textLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    [self addSubview:self.textLabel];
    }

return self;
}

And layoutSubviews looked like this:

- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];

// Get the size of the button
CGRect bounds = self.bounds;

// Configure the subviews of the "button"
...
}