adding disclosre buttons to mapview annotations

Question

i know its been asked before lots of times, but i just cant seem to get it. i have my map drawn, i have annotations added, and i would like to add disclosure buttons to the annotations.

i am adding the annotations from an array in my viewdidload method by pulling in from a text file

NSURL *dataUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://nne.ezadspro.co.uk/cms/testmap.txt"];

NSString *fileString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:dataUrl
                                                encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                   error:nil];
int count = 0;
NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:fileString];

eventPoints = [[NSMutableArray array] retain];
Locations *event;
NSString *line;
NSArray *values;
while ([scanner isAtEnd] == NO) {
    [scanner scanUpToString:@"\n" intoString:&line];
    //skip the first line
    if(count > 0) {
        values = [line componentsSeparatedByString:@","];
        event = [[[Locations alloc] init] autorelease];
        event.latitude = [[values objectAtIndex:5] floatValue];
        event.longitude = [[values objectAtIndex:6] floatValue];
        //event.companyID = [[values objectAtIndex:0]intValue];
        event.title = [values objectAtIndex:1];
        event.subtitle = [values objectAtIndex:2];
        //event.magnitude = [[values objectAtIndex:4] floatValue];
        //event.depth = [[values objectAtIndex:5] floatValue];
        [eventPoints addObject:event];
    }
    count++;
    if(count == 300) {
        //limit number of events to 300
        break;
    }
}
//UIButton *infoButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure];

[mapView addAnnotations: eventPoints];

this works fine , but like i said i want to add the buttons, now i have seen in multiple threads people talking about the method - (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id )annotation {

but whatever i do with this method does not seem to work, could someone please help me on how i get it to work(how is it called?) i have no idea

i am fairly new to this so make it simple if you can and ill try not to ask too many questions :)

Vladimir Vladimir · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-15T13:00:24

mapView:viewForAnnotation: is a delegate method, so you need to set mapView's delegate property to your object (or make connection using Interface Builder). Most likely what you need is:

mapView.delegate = self;

adding disclosre buttons to mapview annotations

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