Saturday, July 6, 2013
Creating a simple iPhone checkbox
I was disappointed to discover the iPhone SDK did not include a Checkbox component. Yes, I know there is the UISwitch component. But sometimes that is just to big and does not look right for your design.After googling, I could not find a checkbox component that somebody else had made or a good tutorial. So below are the steps I did to create a simple checkbox.I began by adding a UIButton to my view and setting its Type to custom and its background to my unchecked png image with transparent background. Then I implemented the auto generated viewDidLoad method to set my background image if the button state was selected to the checked png image.- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; [checkButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"checked.png"] forState:UIControlStateSelected];}Finally, I attached a changeSeletected method to the button's Touch Up Inside event that changed the selected state of my button.- (IBAction) changeSelected: (id) sender { UIButton *button = (UIButton *) sender; button.selected = !button.selected;}I think the final outcome turned out pretty nice. - Full Post
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