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

I had problem setting imageView.highlighted = NO; (setting YES worked properly and the image changed to the highlighted one).

The solution was calling [imageView setHighlighted:NO];

Everything worked properly.

Answer 2

If you need the highlighted tint which the OS provides by default when you tap and hold on a custom button for the selected state as well, use this UIButton subclass. Written in Swift 5:

import Foundation
import UIKit
class HighlightOnSelectCustomButton: UIButton {
    override var isHighlighted: Bool {
        didSet {
            if (self.isSelected != isHighlighted) {
                self.isHighlighted = self.isSelected
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

If you have a good reason to do that, this will do the trick

add these targets:

[button addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonTouchDown:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonTouchUp:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];


-(void)buttonTouchDown:(id)sender{
    UIButton *button=(UIButton *)sender;
    if(button.selected){
        [button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"pressed.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    }
}

-(void)buttonTouchUp:(id)sender{
    UIButton *button=(UIButton *)sender;
    [button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}