Highlight Label while pressed Swift

Question

For reason I had to use a Label instead of a button. Now I try to figure out how to pretend it's a regular button. Important point: Highlighting the text while the label is pressed (Action realized with a UITapGestureRecognizer). So I tried to find any gesture that realizes when a touch ends but I don't find anything :(

Any suggestions?

Regards, Patrick

I think this can help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6324724/is-there-a-touch-method-for-uilabel — egor.zhdan, Sep 21 '15 at 17:16
"For reason I had to use a Label instead of a button" _What_ reason? A button basically just _is_ a tappable label, so why didn't you use a button? — matt, Sep 21 '15 at 17:17
You can also always use touchesBegan: and touchesEnded: and then determine whether or not the point was within the bounds of the UILabel. — jaller200, Sep 21 '15 at 17:21
@matt I have very long strings and have to make them fit to the button size what didn't work with all methods (you can follow my dark history here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32694519/uibutton-auto-adjust-button-font-size-swift ). So I had to improvize and switch to labels :) — patreu22, Sep 22 '15 at 11:11

Knight0fDragon · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-22T12:29:35.287

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UIButton actually has a booleans that you need to assigned for different activities, one of those booleans being called highlighted.

If you are using the View builder, it would be under the Attribute inspector on the right hand side, otherwise you would use btnHighlight.highlighted, where btnHighlight is the name of your outlet to the button

edit: if you have to absolutely use uilabel, you can do many things like assign gestures inside the label class or overriding the touchesEnded event

override func touchesEnded(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
        super.touchesEnded(touches, withEvent: event)
        for touch in touches
        {
          let location = touch.locationInNode(self);
          self.highlighted = true;  //I am not sure how you would be handling this,  this will run for every time a new touch happens.
          break;
        }
        if(touches.count ==  0)
        {
          self.highlighted = false;
        }

    }

Note, you may have to do casting on touch

edited Sep 22 '15 at 12:29

answered Sep 21 '15 at 18:41

Knight0fDragon

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thank you but I'm looking for an explicit solution with a UILabel! – patreu22 Sep 22 '15 at 11:43
the solution is the same for UILabel, highlighted is actually a part of UILabel that you could also access from the button – Knight0fDragon Sep 22 '15 at 12:23
see my revised answer – Knight0fDragon Sep 22 '15 at 12:26
Ah you are right, I solved it nearly the same way :) – patreu22 Sep 22 '15 at 12:34

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '18 at 06:38

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UIButton actually has a booleans that you need to assigned for different activities, one of those booleans being called highlighted.

answered Oct 25 '18 at 06:38

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