UIButton: set image for selected-highlighted state

Question

I set an images for button\'s states Normal,Highlighted and Selected, but when the button in selected state and I press/highlight it I didn\'t see my highlighted image but j

Answer 1

In Swift 3.x, you can set highlighted image when button is selected in the following way:

// Normal state
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "normalImage"), for: .normal) 

// Highlighted state (before button is selected)
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "pressedImage"), for: .highlighted)

// Selected state
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "selectedImage"), for:  .selected)

// Highlighted state (after button is selected)
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "pressedAfterBeingSelectedImage"), 
                for:  UIControlState.selected.union(.highlighted))

Answer 2

In swift you can do:

button.setImage(UIImage(named: "selected"), 
                forState: UIControlState.selected.union(.highlighted))

Answer 3

I think most posters here miss the point completely. I had the same problem. The original question was about the Highlighted state of a Selected button (COMBINING BOTH STATES) which cannot be set in IB and falls back to Default state with some darkening going on. Only working solution as one post mentioned:

[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"pressed.png"] forState:UIControlStateSelected | UIControlStateHighlighted];

Answer 4

Swift 3

// Default state (previously `.Normal`)
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image1"), for: [])

// Highlighted
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image2"), for: .highlighted)

// Selected
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image3"), for: .selected)

// Selected + Highlighted
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image4"), for: [.selected, .highlighted])

To set the background image we can use setBackgroundImage(_:for:)

Swift 2.x

// Normal
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image1"), forState: .Normal)

// Highlighted
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image2"), forState: .Highlighted)

// Selected
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image3"), forState: .Selected)

// Selected + Highlighted
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "image4"), forState: [.Selected, .Highlighted])

Answer 5

Where you want to call from

[button addTarget:self action:@selector(test:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

The method:

-(void)test:(id)sender{
    UIButton *button=(UIButton *)sender;
    if (_togon){
      [button setTitleColor:UIColorFromRGB(89,89, 89) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
      _togon=NO;
    }
    else{
      [button setTitleColor:UIColorFromRGB(28, 154, 214) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
      _togon=YES;
    }
}

Credit above to Jorge but I improved it a bit giving the full working solution

Answer 6

Swift 3+

button.setImage(UIImage(named: "selected_image"), for: [.selected, .highlighted])

OR

button.setImage(UIImage(named: "selected_image"), for: UIControlState.selected.union(.highlighted))

It means that the button current in selected state, then you touch it, show the highlight state.