Ios – Turn off highlighting on UIBarButtonItem

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I'm trying to use a UIBarButtonItem to put a title on my UIToolbar. I'm using the plain style and that looks fine, but I can't seem to get it to stop highlighting on touch. The Shows Touch When Highlighted option isn't available for the bar button items. Is there a quick and easy way to do this? I'm trying to do the building in interface builder so I can see what I'm doing. I'd prefer not to build the toolbar in the view did load every time.

Best Answer

The property responsible for this is accessible in the UIButton class:

myButton.showsTouchWhenHighlighted = NO;

You can access this (programmatically) in a UIBarButtonItem by assigning a UIButton to the bar button item's customView property, and configuring the button. You can do this in Interface Builder too: drag a UIButton onto a UIToolbar, and it will automatically embed it in a UIBarButtonItem for you - then look for the "Shows Touch On Highlight" checkbox under the button's settings.

Incidentally, I don't know how you're customising your buttons so feel free to ignore this, but if your button looks and behaves like a standard toolbar item then users will expect the glow effect.

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