setFont Deprecated?

Question

I get a warning saying that setFont is deprecated?

[button setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:13]];

Any suggestions how to take it away pls..

Answer 1

As UIButton exposes its titleLabel starting from iPhone OS 3.0 you must set font to it directly:

[button.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:13]];

Answer 2

Setting the font of the button directly is depracated in 3.x versions of the SDK. Instead, you need to set the properties of the button's titleLabel property.

Code: (mybutton).titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];

Source: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/26126-warning-setting-font-button.html

Answer 3

The accepted answer works and sets the font for one button instance. In case you want to set application wide font for all UIButtons, you can do it like this:

// Set font to be used for labels inside UIButtons
[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UIButton class], nil] setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:15.0]];

This was not specifically asked in the question, but in case you need to set the font for all labels (not inside UIButtons), you can do it like this:

// Set font for all UILabels
[[UILabel appearance] setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:13.0]];