How do I scale a UIButton's imageView?

Question

I created a UIButton instance named \"button\" with an image using [UIButton setImage:forState:]. The button.frame is larger than the image\'s size.

Now

Answer 1

I can't get a solution use by _imageView, but I can use a CGContextRef to solve it. It use the UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext to get the currentContextRef and draw a image in currentContextRef, and then scale or rotate the image and create a new image. But it's not perfect.

the code:

-(UIImage*) scaleAndRotateImage:(UIImage*)photoimage width:(CGFloat)bounds_width height:(CGFloat)bounds_height;
{
    CGImageRef imgRef = photoimage.CGImage;

    CGFloat width = CGImageGetWidth(imgRef);
    CGFloat height = CGImageGetHeight(imgRef);

    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
    CGRect bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height);

    bounds.size.width = bounds_width;
    bounds.size.height = bounds_height;

    CGFloat scaleRatio = bounds.size.width / width;
    CGFloat scaleRatioheight = bounds.size.height / height;
    CGSize imageSize = CGSizeMake(CGImageGetWidth(imgRef), CGImageGetHeight(imgRef));
    CGFloat boundHeight;
    UIImageOrientation orient = photoimage.imageOrientation;
    switch(orient)
    {
        case UIImageOrientationUp: //EXIF = 1
            transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored: //EXIF = 2
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(imageSize.width, 0.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1.0, 1.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationDown: //EXIF = 3
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(imageSize.width, imageSize.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored: //EXIF = 4
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, imageSize.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, 1.0, -1.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored: //EXIF = 5
            boundHeight = bounds.size.height;
            bounds.size.height = bounds.size.width;
            bounds.size.width = boundHeight;
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(imageSize.height, imageSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1.0, 1.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, 3.0 * M_PI / 2.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeft: //EXIF = 6
            boundHeight = bounds.size.height;
            bounds.size.height = bounds.size.width;
            bounds.size.width = boundHeight;
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, imageSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, 3.0 * M_PI / 2.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored: //EXIF = 7
            boundHeight = bounds.size.height;
            bounds.size.height = bounds.size.width;
            bounds.size.width = boundHeight;
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1.0, 1.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI / 2.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationRight: //EXIF = 8
            boundHeight = bounds.size.height;
            bounds.size.height = bounds.size.width;
            bounds.size.width = boundHeight;
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(imageSize.height, 0.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI / 2.0);
            break;

        default:
            [NSException raise:NSInternalInconsistencyException format:@"Invalid?image?orientation"];
            break;
    }

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(bounds.size);

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    if (orient == UIImageOrientationRight || orient == UIImageOrientationLeft)
    {
        CGContextScaleCTM(context, -scaleRatio, scaleRatioheight);
        CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -height, 0);
    }
    else
    {
        CGContextScaleCTM(context, scaleRatio, -scaleRatioheight);
        CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, -height);
    }

    CGContextConcatCTM(context, transform);

    CGContextDrawImage(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(), CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height), imgRef);
    UIImage *imageCopy = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return imageCopy;
}

Answer 2

use

button.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleToFill;

not

button.imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;

Update:

As @Chris commented,

To get this to work for setImage:forState:, you need to do the following to scale horizontally: myButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentFill;

Answer 3

button.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentFill;
button.contentVerticalAlignment =  UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentFill;

Answer 4

You can modify imageView by using custom class of UIButton. Please see my answer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/59874762/5693826

Answer 5

I found this solution.

1) Subclass the following methods of UIButton

+ (id)buttonWithType:(UIButtonType)buttonType {
    MyButton *toReturn = [super buttonWithType:buttonType];
    toReturn.imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
    return toReturn;
}

- (CGRect)imageRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect {
    return contentRect;
}

And it works well.

Answer 6

This will also work, as the backgroundImage automatically scales

[button setBackgroundImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];