How do I disable a UIButton?

Question

I am working on a project in which I have to show all photos of Photo Library in a plist and show them horizontally on UIButtons.

My app will also have an edit button: when the user clicks this button, a delete mark (such as usually appears in other iPhone/iPad apps) should show on each button.

But here's the crucial bit: as soon as this delete mark appears, the functionality of the button should be disabled. I've tried accomplishing this with the following:

{
  editbutton.enabled=NO;
}

...but it neither produces an error nor works. What should I do?

Show the code block where you did disable – rptwsthi Jun 02 '11 at 05:42 — rptwsthi, Jun 02 '11 at 05:42

Mehul Mistri · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-06T04:13:22.983

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Please set this...

 editButton.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

or You can use

 editButton.enabled = NO;

edited Aug 06 '13 at 04:13

answered Jun 02 '11 at 05:41

Mehul Mistri

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You shouldn't have to use this, setEnabled:NO would be the proper way to to it which would update the UI as well. – garrettmurray Aug 06 '13 at 00:06
what's the diff between 'isEnabled' and 'enabled' – OMGPOP Feb 01 '14 at 13:41
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@OMGPOP isEnabled is a synthesized getter for enabled property. – Legoless Jun 11 '14 at 12:06
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enabled has been renamed to isEnabled in Swift 3 iOS 10 – dfmuir Sep 12 '16 at 01:44
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In iOS 10 Swift 3, isEnabled is the only thing present. setEnabled is nowhere to be found. – fasih.rana Oct 25 '16 at 10:07

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Swift 3 and above

editButton.isEnabled = false

setEnabled is now part of the setter method for isEnabled.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 06 '13 at 04:32

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setter for property enabled is overridden in class UIButton. try to send a message.

 [editbutton setEnabled:NO];

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answered Aug 06 '13 at 00:04

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Jhaliya - Praveen Sharma · Answer 4 · 2011-06-02T06:02:14.373

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Use the enabled property of UIControl which the super class of UIButton and set it with NO.

myButton.enabled = NO;

You could also try as @Marvin suggested, In that case your button will not respond to any touch event from user,

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answered Jun 02 '11 at 05:43

Jhaliya - Praveen Sharma

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 06 '15 at 23:41

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In addition to the above:

Set editButton.userInteractionEnabled = NO; or you can use editButton.enabled = NO;

You might want to gray out the button so the user knows it was disabled: editButton.alpha = 0.66

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answered Feb 06 '15 at 23:01

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Pradumna Patil · Answer 6 · 2015-07-30T13:32:38.110

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yourBtn.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

edited Jul 30 '15 at 13:32

answered Mar 05 '15 at 09:56

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How do I disable a UIButton?

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