iOS Programaticly add buttons with an action?

[DennisBlah]

Hi all,

I'm facing a new problem with adding my buttons.
Now I'm adding buttons to the bottom bar. They show up, with the image, but...
the action is never being called.

This is proberbly a simple fault so hopefully someone can help me out here

for(int a=0;........
            NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,
                                                                 NSUserDomainMask, YES);
            NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
            NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:
                              [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@/favorites/%@", theSub, [currentFavoriteImgs objectAtIndex: a]]];
            UIImage *favoImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile: path];
            
            UIButton *favoButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
            [favoButton setTag: a];
            [favoButton setTitle: @"" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
            favoButton.frame = CGRectMake(x, y, size, size);
            [favoButton setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
            [favoButton setBackgroundImage: favoImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
            [favoButton setBackgroundImage: favoImage forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
            [favoButton addTarget:self action:@selector(chosenBtnAction:) forControlEvents: UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
            
            [bottombar addSubview:favoButton];

I'm really struggling for a few hours now

 

[dejo]

What does your chosenBtnAction: method look like?

 

[DennisBlah]

What does your chosenBtnAction: method look like?

Like this:

-(IBAction)chosenBtnAction:(id)sender {
    [self closeButtons: @""]; //Some function to close buttons animated
    NSLog(@"BLAH PRESSED BUTTON!");
    
    NSUInteger index = [@[@"page",@"gallery",@"lostfound", @"map", @"calendar", @"events"] indexOfObjectPassingTest:^BOOL(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
        return [obj isEqualToString:[currentModules objectAtIndex: [sender tag]]];
    }];
    NSString *theNextView = nil;
    
    switch(index) {

It looks like I can't press these buttons... Because the image is not getting highlighted or anything

(I'm using the same function in my sidebar, and that works fine)

 

[dejo]

Because the image is not getting highlighted or anything

Well, you're using the same image for both normal and highlighted states, so that probably doesn't help:

[favoButton setBackgroundImage: favoImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[favoButton setBackgroundImage: favoImage forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

 

[DennisBlah]

Well, you're using the same image for both normal and highlighted states, so that probably doesn't help:

You are right about that one ;-)
That's why I have quoted it out in my project, see for any difference, but it doesn't make any..

I don't even get my
NSLog(@"BLAH PRESSED BUTTON!");
Even if I quote out the [self closeButtons: @""]

When I put a button manually with the a tag for an .. test. It does work properly, but the buttonbar must be dynamic

For now I will workaround it. As the 'favoButtons' will be a max of 5, I will put 5 buttons in place, and change the image programaticly...

Still I'm hoping that someone can help me out of this, because its not funny!

 

[dejo]

Why are you not using UIBarButtonItem for your button bar?

 

[DennisBlah]

Why are you not using UIBarButtonItem for your button bar?

Because its a normal uiview
Im fading in and out and its dynamic in sizes. The buttons will be dynamic in sizes as well