UIButton not getting touch events inside a custom UITableViewCell

Question

I have designed a custom UItableView Cell in IB. This cell has a UIButton with an associated action. This button is not getting touch events, however the cell itself gets the events when called.

What could I be doing wrong here.

+--------------------------------+
|                     +----------+
|  Cell               | Button   |
|                     +----------+
+--------------------------------+

When I tap on the Button tableviewcell gets the events. What could be wrong?

EDIT:

I just checked, that UIButton is also getting touch events, but so is the UITableViewCell. And at then end of it the action associated with UIButton is not getting called.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Finally noticed that the button in question had its "User Interaction Enabled" checkbox unchecked in the attributes inspector.

Answer 2

This might not be correct, but is work around,

If I create the button dynamically in code, the application works fine.

Answer 3

In customtablecell.h
You need to declare a new controller e.g. UIViewController *parentViewController;
Do property and synthesize
write below lines of code in customtablecell.m file

-(IBAction)myButtonAction:(id)sender {
 if (self.parentViewController) { 
        [self.parentViewController performSelector:@selector(myButtonClicked: forCellWithLabel:) withObject:sender withObject:[self.NameOfTrack text]];
    }
}

in customtablecell xib connect this -(IBAction)myButtonAction:(id)sender to button

in tableViewController

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)_tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath method
cell.parentViewController = self;





- (void)myButtonClicked:(id)sender forCellWithLabel:(NSString *)text {
    UIButton *button = (UIButton  *)sender;
  //Do some thing

}

Answer 4

Make sure that you have an IBAction associated with this button for the state UIControlEventTouchUpInside and the user interaction are enabled. The file owner should then receive the touch event.