Getting title of UIButton in event handler

Question

I create a button and set title as \"Click here\". When I press that button I want to get that button title and log it. Here\'s my code, where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

-(void)clicketbutton {
    UIButton *mybutton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    [mybutton setTitle:@"Click here"  forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [mybutton addTarget:self  
       action:@selector(displayvalue:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; 
}
-(void)displayvalue:(id)sender {       

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

}

Answer 2

Your displayvalue: method should look something like this:

-(void)displayvalue:(id)sender {       
    UIButton *resultButton = (UIButton *)sender;
    NSLog(@" The button's title is %@.",  resultButton.currentTitle);
}

(Please check out the documentation in XCode, it would have given you the right answer.)

Answer 3

I know it's a bit of an old question, but this is probably the neatest way to resolve this one.

NSLog(@"The button title is: %@", [sender currentTitle]);        

Edit
I've just realised that this is depending on the fact that you have set the receiving parameter to UIButton*. Rather than using the default id, creating a UIButton object and casting (id)sender to that button. Cut out the middle man and just set the function signature to

-(void)buttonPressed:(UIButton*)sender{
  NSLog(@"Button title: %@",sender.currentTitle);
}  

This is effectively casting the function parameter

Answer 4

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