UIButton won't gray out

Question

Isn't UIButton supposed to become grayish/grayer when enabled=NO ?

I have a simple UIButton on a blackbackground (no custom images, no custom nothing, just dragged it with IB and changed size and title).

And when I set it programatically to become disabled it stays white as hell!

For now I'm using a small stupid workaround: hidden blackbg 0,5 alpha UIView on top of the button that becomes hidden=NO when I need to disable the button... but I would like to set the button properly...

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

There is another way without having to alpha the whole button:

[startButton setTitleColor:[UIColor grayColor] forState:UIControlStateDisabled]; 

Then whenever you set the enabled property to NO, the button's text will automatically gray out.

Answer 2

There is no way to make a UIButton "grayer". But you can use that trick :

UIButton *myButton; myButton.alpha = 0.4; myButton.enabled = NO; 

So your UIButton looks like unusable ;)