IOS 6 - Custom UIButton how to give my titleLabel a margin?

Question

I'm drawing an inset rectangular border to my UIButton subclass inside the drawRect: method. As you can see that shape is too close to my button titleLabel frame. How can I set the titleLabel's max width/margin to avoid this?

DrawRect: method

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
[super drawRect:rect];

  CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

  CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [UIColor bluecolor].CGColor);

CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0);

CGContextMoveToPoint(context, 4,4);

CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, 56, 4);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, 56, 56);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, 4, 56);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, 4,3);

// and now draw the Path!
CGContextStrokePath(context);

}

This is the button

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '13 at 10:00

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Use self.titleEdgeInsets=UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 5, 0, 5); in drawRect method.

answered Mar 19 '13 at 10:00

Xcoder

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 10:03

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Try this code....

 UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
    UIEdgeInsets edgeInsets = button.titleEdgeInsets;
    edgeInsets.left -= 5;
    edgeInsets.right += 5;
    button.titleEdgeInsets = edgeInsets;

answered Mar 19 '13 at 10:03

Bhanu Prakash

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 02:15

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From xCode, this can be set using the Inset property as shown in the screenshot below: enter image description here

answered Nov 26 '14 at 02:15

vijayst

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IOS 6 - Custom UIButton how to give my titleLabel a margin?

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