Subclassing UIButton but can't access my properties

Question

I\'ve created a sub class of UIButton:

//
//  DetailButton.h
#import 
#import 

@interface MyDetailButt         


        

Answer 1

I made the same attempt as original poster but it seems that subclassing UIButton to do something like this is hard.

What I did, which is a hack - but works for me now, is add a UITextField as subview of the UIButton. The UITextField has no frame and is hidden, but I can freely store text strings in the textfield's text property. Which is what I wanted to do...

UITextField* tf = [[UITextField alloc] init];
tf.text = @"the text that I wanna store";
tf.hidden = YES;
tf.tag = TAGOFBUTTONSUBTEXTFIELD;
[previouslyCreatedButton addSubview:tf];
[tf release];

I defined TAGOFBUTTONSUBTEXTFIELD as 99 somewhere. Global. It's ugly but...

Then later, to get that text string use something like this:

+(NSString*)getStoredStringFromButton:(UIButton*)button {
    UITextField* tf = (UITextField*)[button viewWithTag:TAGOFBUTTONSUBTEXTFIELD];
    return tf.text;
}

So this assumes that no one else tries to add a subview with tag 99 to the button.

Lol :-)