Get button pressed id on Swift via sender

Question

So I have a storyboard with 3 buttons I want to just create 1 action for all those 3 buttons and decide what to do based on their label/id...

Is there a way to get s

Answer 1

In my case what i did, just like the answers above i used the tag to identify the specific button, what i added is that i added a UIButton extension that adds an id so that i can set a string id

i had three buttons with tags 0, 1 and 2

Then created the extension

extension UIButton {
    var id: String {
        let tag = self.tag

        switch tag {
            case 0:
                return "breakfast"

           case 1:
               return "lunch"

           case 2:
               return "dinner"

           default:

               return "None"
       }
    }
  }

When accessing a button in an IBAction i would just call:

sender.id

Answer 2

Assuming you gave them all proper names as @IBOutlets:

@IBOutlet var weak buttonOne: UIButton!
@IBOutlet var weak buttonTwo: UIButton!
@IBOutlet var weak buttonThree: UIButton!

You can use the following to determine which is which

@IBAction func didPressButton(sender: AnyObject){
 // no harm in doing some sort of checking on the sender
 if(sender.isKindOfClass(UIButton)){

    switch(sender){
    case buttonOne:    
                   //buttonOne action  
                   break
    case buttonTwo:   
                  //buttonTwo action  
                   break
    case buttonThree: 
                  //buttonThree action  
                   break
    default:
                   break
    }
}

Answer 3

If you want to create 3 buttons with single method then you can do this by following code...Try this

Swift 3
Example :-

override func viewDidLoad()
{
    super.viewDidLoad()
    Button1.tag=1
    Button1.addTarget(self,action:#selector(buttonClicked),
                      for:.touchUpInside)
    Button2.tag=2
    Button2.addTarget(self,action:#selector(buttonClicked),
                      for:.touchUpInside)
    Button3.tag=3
    Button3.addTarget(self,action:#selector(buttonClicked),
                      for:.touchUpInside)

}

func buttonClicked(sender:UIButton)
{
    switch sender.tag
    {
        case 1: print("1")     //when Button1 is clicked...
            break
        case 2: print("2")     //when Button2 is clicked...
            break
        case 3: print("3")     //when Button3 is clicked...
            break
        default: print("Other...")
    }
}