Let go to click UIButton

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  1. spaceman816, Jun 2, 2010

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    #1
    I want users to click one button, hold, and select a different button by simply letting go over it (simlar to the way holding a file menu on a computer works).
    Simply doing a touch down method on the first button and a touch up on the second doesn't work- touch up doesn't seem to react unless the touch down took place in the same button.
    Sorry if I worded that confusingly.
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  2. dejo, Jun 2, 2010

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    #2
    Do you have a strong reason for going against the normal way users expect things to work using the iPhone OS?
     
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  3. spaceman816, Jun 2, 2010

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    I think it's pretty intuitive.
    I'm just trying to do a color picker of a few colors that you click and hold to make appear, and let go to select.
     
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  4. matoch, Jun 3, 2010

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    I think it would be more natural for the user to click a button to bring up the color selection tool and then click the color that they want to use. What you describe feels a bit awkward to me. And sorry I don't know how to implement what you've asked.
     
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  5. spaceman816, Jun 3, 2010

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    You're probably right.
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  6. jnic, Jun 3, 2010

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    Rather than using UIButtons, you're probably better off creating a single custom view whose touch events you override, since they all pass a touch position which you can act upon based on your "button"s' positions in the view.
     
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  7. PatrickCocoa, Jun 4, 2010

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    I agree with jnic, if you're not using the standard interface behavior for buttons, that's an indication not to use buttons to implement it. Use a custom view, override the methods in that view to do what you want.
     
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