UIButton with multiple actions: How to prevent other actions from firing

Question

I\'m trying to find a way to consume a button press, not from the response chain per se, but from other action methods bound to that button. I\'ve looked all over for this

Answer 1

Based on the @danielquokka idea about override the method sendActionsForControlEvents:, I subclass UIButton and add following codes. It works fine. After firing event, it will block UI events for 0.5 seconds.

- (void)sendAction:(SEL)action to:(id)target forEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    [super sendAction:action to:target forEvent:event];
    self.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

    ///! After handle UIEvent, block this button UI events for a while.
    [self performSelector:@selector(delayEnable) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.5];
}

- (void)delayEnable
{
    self.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
}

UPDATE

Another way to ignore UI events is by [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginIgnoringInteractionEvents] and [[UIApplication sharedApplication] endIgnoringInteractionEvents].

beginIgnoringInteractionEvents and endIgnoringInteractionEvents will block all touch events for the Application until endIgnoringInteractionEvents called.