Hooking up UIButton to closure? (Swift, target-action)

Question

I want to hook up a UIButton to a piece of code – from what I have found, the preferred method to do this in Swift is still to use the addTarget(target: AnyObject?, ac

Answer 1

This is not necessarily a "hooking," but you can effectively achieve this behavior by subclassing UIButton:

class ActionButton: UIButton {
    var touchDown: ((button: UIButton) -> ())?
    var touchExit: ((button: UIButton) -> ())?
    var touchUp: ((button: UIButton) -> ())?

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:)") }
    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        setupButton()
    }

    func setupButton() {
        //this is my most common setup, but you can customize to your liking
        addTarget(self, action: #selector(touchDown(_:)), forControlEvents: [.TouchDown, .TouchDragEnter])
        addTarget(self, action: #selector(touchExit(_:)), forControlEvents: [.TouchCancel, .TouchDragExit])
        addTarget(self, action: #selector(touchUp(_:)), forControlEvents: [.TouchUpInside])
    }

    //actions
    func touchDown(sender: UIButton) {
        touchDown?(button: sender)
    }

    func touchExit(sender: UIButton) {
        touchExit?(button: sender)
    }

    func touchUp(sender: UIButton) {
        touchUp?(button: sender)
    }
}

Use:

let button = ActionButton(frame: buttonRect)
button.touchDown = { button in
    print("Touch Down")
}
button.touchExit = { button in
    print("Touch Exit")
}
button.touchUp = { button in
    print("Touch Up")
}