UIButton block equivalent to addTarget:action:forControlEvents: method?

Question

I looked around, but couldn\'t find this on the internet, nor anywhere in the Apple docs, so I\'m guessing it doesn\'t exist.

But is there a iOS4 blocks equivalent A

Answer 1

I WROTE THIS LONG AGO AND IT'S NOT THE WAY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!!! Subclassing UIButton creates a minefield that just isn't worth it. Use Shayne Sweeney's Category(I just updated his answer with a bunch of tweaks to make his example production ready... hopefully they get approved quickly).

-----ORIG POST-----

The code posted by Martin should work if you are only assigning the UIControlEventTouchUpInside... but there are a couple problems:

• You will leak blocks with the code posted if you call handleControlEvent: more than once.
• If you assign more than one type of event, it will fire the last block for all events

In my code I'm relying on Blocks being treated as object-c objects, which only works on iOS4+(not 3.2). It works well for me when I want to do something special for button states(i.e. animations). You can just use the clickedButton block for handling normal clicks.

#import 

@interface ButtWithBlockActions : UIButton {
  void (^downBlock_)(void);
  void (^upBlock_)(void);
  void (^clickedBlock_)(void);
}

@property(nonatomic,retain) void (^downBlock)(void);
@property(nonatomic,retain) void (^upBlock)(void);
@property(nonatomic,retain) void (^clickedBlock)(void);

@end



#import "ButtWithBlockActions.h"

@implementation ButtWithBlockActions

- (void)dealloc {
  [downBlock_ release];
  [upBlock_ release];
  [clickedBlock_ release];
  [super dealloc];
}


- (void (^)(void))downBlock { return downBlock_; }
- (void) fireDownBlock { downBlock_(); }
- (void) setDownBlock:(void (^)(void))block {
  if(downBlock_) {
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireDownBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireDownBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragEnter];
    [downBlock_ release];
  }
  downBlock_ = [block copy];
  if(downBlock_) {
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireDownBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireDownBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragEnter];
  }
}


- (void (^)(void))upBlock { return upBlock_; }
- (void) fireUpBlock { upBlock_(); }
- (void) setUpBlock:(void (^)(void))block {
  if(upBlock_) {
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpOutside];
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragOutside];
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchCancel];
    [upBlock_ release];
  }
  upBlock_ = [block copy];
  if(upBlock_) {
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpOutside];
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragOutside];
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireUpBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchCancel];
  }
}


- (void (^)(void))clickedBlock { return clickedBlock_; }
- (void) fireClickedBlock { clickedBlock_(); }
- (void) setClickedBlock:(void (^)(void))block {
  if(clickedBlock_) {
    [self removeTarget:self action:@selector(fireClickedBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [clickedBlock_ release];
  }
  clickedBlock_ = [block copy];
  if(clickedBlock_) {
    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(fireClickedBlock) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
  }
}

@end