How to Pass parameters in IBAction?

Question

I am accessing IBAction programatically & want to pass two parameter with this IBAction call. Can any one suggest easy way...

Are you setting target dynamically or Statically thorugh XIB? — KAREEM MAHAMMED, Aug 22 '12 at 08:01

waldrumpus · Answer 1 · 2012-08-22T08:22:21.857

IBActions are usually called by user interface elements, and they can't have an arbitrary number of parameters.

If you want to call the action method programmatically, you could abuse the sender parameter by passing a dictionary as an argument, holding the actual arguments you want to pass, like so:

- (void) foo
{
    [self myAction: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject: @"bar" forKey: @"baz"]];
}

However, I would recommend creating an additional method with two parameters; the IBAction can call it with arguments appropriate to the sender, and programmatically you can call it using whatever arguments you need. This would be a possible outline for the code:

// The atual "logic" method, doing sth interesting
- (void) foo: (NSString *) s bar: (NSInteger) i
{
     // some code
}

- (IBAction) myAction: (id) sender
{
    // can be invoked by a button, or any view action
    if (sender == self.buttonX) {
        [self foo: @"x" bar: 42];
    }

    if (sender == self.buttonY) {
        [self foo: @"y" bar: 4];
    }
}

- (void) methodCallingFooBarProgrammatically
{
    [self foo: @"s" bar: 17];
}

IBActions can have two parameters as well: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2117146/1207152 — sch, Aug 22 '12 at 08:09
@sch I did not know that. Thanks for telling me this, I'll re-phrase my answer. — waldrumpus, Aug 22 '12 at 08:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 08:06

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You can pass an array in the IBAction method like this:

-(IBAction)method:(id)sender
{
   [sender objectAtIndex:0];
}

or you can do it like this:

-(IBAction)methodName:(NSString *)stringName:(NSString*)stringName2
{
  // You can pass an array and even a dictionary
}

answered Aug 22 '12 at 08:06

Tripti Kumar

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Of course, neither of these will work if you try to use the action method as an action method, since a UIControl is neither an array nor a string. You would need to check the objects' classes, and you are well down the road of dirty hackery by that point. Whatever problem the questioner has, there is a better solution. – Peter Hosey Aug 22 '12 at 09:24

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 08:27

IBAction method follow a spesific pattern either

- (IBAction)action:(id)sender;

or

- (IBAction)action:(id)sender forEvent:(UIEvent *)event;

where sender is the UI object that sends the event, and event being the UIEvent itself.

If you are not sending these arguments then you don't want an IBAction method. Define a normal method that takes the two arguments you want and if you IBAction methods need to call it as well then do that. IBAction methods are defined as IBAction so that interface builder can find them in your code, so there is no reason to define an IBAction method that does not follow the pattern above.

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

the IBAction methods could receive two parameters about the sender object and the touch event, you cannot "pass" anything, you can receive only these via:

- (IBAction)action
- (IBAction)action:(id)sender
- (IBAction)action:(id)sender forEvent:(UIEvent *)event

you could use only the sender's tag property to pass a custom identifier as NSInteger.

HERE IS THE POINT

everything else what you would like to "pass" must be exists on your Model layer already! if you know what it is...

therefore, you can reach your datas from the Model layer after you receive the action.

How to Pass parameters in IBAction?

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HERE IS THE POINT

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