Attaching UIButtons in IB to an array?

[That Don Guy]

I have a set of ten UIButtons in a nib, and a UIButton[10] array defined in the corresponding ViewController's .h file. However, I can't connect any of the buttons to the array (in either direction) in IB. Is there a way to do it in code without having to define a separate IBOutlet entry for each button?

I realize I can create a method to handle a TouchUpInside and use the sender argument to determine which button was clicked, but I am trying to do something that will modify the buttons when the app is first loaded.

(The array is defined as IBOutlet UIButton *buttons[10], in case it is some Objective-C problem involving an array of pointers vs a pointer to an array.)

-- Don

[iisword]

You don't define arrays as IBOutlet. IBOutlets are things that you can put on the interface(buttons, label, views).

Probably a good way is to change the tags of the button to numbers in interface builder. Then all you got to do to access the tag is something like...

sender.tag

Someone back me up if this is right cause I think it will work...

I think the [sender titleForState:UIControlStateNormal] might also help define your buttons

[Marmadukian]

UIButton *button = sender;
button.tag

XCode doesn't know what class sender is. So you have to declare a pointer with the same type as whatever object you are trying to use.