Can I make a button stay highlighted like it is selected? Here is my code!

[WeatherMan]

I am using 3 buttons as selectors and want the last one pressed to stay highlighted. I used this code which seems like it should work but does not:

Code:
UIButton *buttonClicked = (UIButton *)sender;
UIImage *imageOfClicked = [buttonClicked imageForState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[buttonClicked setImage:imageOfClicked forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Anyone know why this does not cause the normal state to be the highlighted state?

[sukumar_77]

Try following:

[button setImage:imageOfClicked forState:UIControlStateSelected];
[button setSelected:YES];

[mike62]

I found this post, and a couple others, on this topic and dug into it a bit since I need checkboxes. This method should work for what you're doing as well. Thanks sukumar, your post pointed me in the right direction, though I found I didn't need this line:

[button setImage:imageOfClicked forState:UIControlStateSelected];

I just set the images for the button in Interface Builder, then used

[button setSelected:YES];

to change its "mode".

Have a look at my tutorial on how to create a simple checkbox in Interface Builder. There is source code in the form of a working Xcode project.