iPhone: Override UIButton buttonWithType to return subclass

Question

I want to be able to create a UIButton with an oversized responsive area. I know that one way to do that is to override the hitTest method in a subclass, but how do I insta

Answer 1

The buttonType property is not used anywhere in UIKit, and in your code you could always check -isKindOfClass:, so overwriting +buttonWithType: for this property is rather pointless IMO. Just use

return [[[OversizedButton alloc] initWithFrame:...] autorelease];

(You can override the button type with the undocumented method _setButtonType:.)