Briefly Flash Text

[brian515]

Hi all,
I have a UILabel object, and I want to briefly flash it to another color, then back again to indicate it has been selected.

What is the best way to do this? I successfully can select the label object, but not flash the color back and forth. What is the best way to do this? I tried it with UIView animations, but no dice there. I think doing an NSTimer might work, but I don't know how to pass arguments through @selectors.

How would I go about doing this? Thanks in advance.

[kingbombs]

So i think you can do something like this (assuming button is red and you want to change to blue briefly):
Have a method called something like (void)changeColor

- (void)changeColor {
      button.setColor('Red'); // probably not right syntax for setting color
}

then in your IBAction method for checking if user has pressed the button or where ever you do that check, have something like (not sure if this will deffaintly work):

button.setColor('Blue');
[self performSelector: @selector(changeColor) withObject:nil afterDelay:2];

this should after 2 seconds call the changeColor method, which will set the button back to red.

hope this helps!

[Ins3rtNam3H3r3]

Originally Posted by kingbombs

So i think you can do something like this (assuming button is red and you want to change to blue briefly):
Have a method called something like (void)changeColor

- (void)changeColor {
      button.setColor('Red'); // probably not right syntax for setting color
}

then in your IBAction method for checking if user has pressed the button or where ever you do that check, have something like (not sure if this will deffaintly work):

button.setColor('Blue');
[self performSelector: @selector(changeColor) withObject:nil afterDelay:2];

this should after 2 seconds call the changeColor method, which will set the button back to red.

hope this helps!

To set the color of a label you would do:

[label setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];

or

label.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];

[kingbombs]

Originally Posted by Ins3rtNam3H3r3

To set the color of a label you would do:

[label setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];

or

label.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];

I was just using .setColor so it was obvious what i was doing