Subclassing UIButton

[parsa28]

Hello there, I need a custom button so I made a subclass of UIButton with custom settings in the "-init" method. But since I'm going to need many instances of this class, I'd rather not alloc,init them using code, but using IB.

But after setting the button classes to my own subclass in IB, their look simply doesn't change and thats obvious since it has not been initialized.

Whats the solution to this ? Thanks for your time.

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Objects that are rehydrated from nibs get their initWithCoder method called, not other init methods.

[parsa28]

Thanks a lot for your quick and correct help.

[parsa28]

Update: by reading around the web, I got that if the purpose is just doing post NIB loading instantiation, -(void)awakeFromNib could be a better choice.

Regards,
Parsa

[PoweredFlight]

You might be really better off writing your own Button class based on UIView or UIControl. Subclassing UIButton may hurt you sooner or later.

[parsa28]

Originally Posted by PoweredFlight

You might be really better off writing your own Button class based on UIView or UIControl. Subclassing UIButton may hurt you sooner or later.

why do you say so ?

[PoweredFlight]

Originally Posted by parsa28

why do you say so ?

Because when you create a button, an instance of UIPushButton or the like is actually created, depending on the supplied button type, and you would have hard time overriding methods in your own subclass for, say, custom event handling.