How to get the title for a UIButton when it is pressed

Question

I\'m trying to discover what the UIButton title is for which UIButton was pressed in the following code.

on viewDidLoad the button title is outputted to the console usin

Answer 1

NSString * strButtonTitle = [btnButton titleForState:state];

where state:

UIControlStateNormal,
UIControlStateHighlighted,
UIControlStateDisabled,
UIControlStateSelected,
UIControlStateFocused,
UIControlStateApplication,
UIControlStateReserved

For your requirement

NSString * strButtonTitle = [btnButton titleForState:UIControlStateSelected];

This is the method for getting the title for different states of button at any given time in the program...But based on the question answer from Zaphod is good.

Answer 2

In your action:

- (void) buttonPressed:(UIButton*) sender {
    NSLog(@"The button title is %@",sender.titleLabel.text);
}

Edit: Or as commented Iulian: sender.currentTitle, but it may be nil, see the comments of Michael.

Answer 3

You should have the function somewhere...

- (void)buttonPressed:(id)sender

Just put this inside it...

- (void)buttonPressed:(id)sender
{
    UIButton *someButton = (UIButton*)sender;

    NSLog(@"The button title is %@ ", [someButton titleForState:UIControlStateNormal]);

    //You should also be able to use...
    //NSLog(@"The button title is %@ ", someButton.titleLabel.text);
}