Change colour of dark grey highlight when holding down custom UIButton?

Question

I have a custom UIButton which is a cloud, transparent black and white .png file, with no down state, just one image. When tapping and holding the finger over it, i

Answer 1

I was having a similar issue with a custom UIButton when the button was highlighting in grey every time it was pressed. I solved that problem by subclassing UIButton and in the implementation I overrode a single method, (void)setHighlighted: method and kept it empty:

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted
{
   // Leave empty to prevent super from doing whatever
   // that it is doing to show the grey highlight.
}

That stopped any type of highlighting as I was not doing anything in the method. It's a better approach if all that you're trying to do is remove any highlighting effect.

So in your code, create a subclass of UIButton, override the setHighlighted method, and then make your custom button a subclass of this custom class.