adding a button in an UIView - iphone

Question

I'm trying to add a button to a UIview, to cover the whole area of the view.. like this:
-(MBNHomeScreenButton*) initWithImage:(UIImage*)image
andHighlightedImage:(UIImage*)highlightedImage
andTitle:(NSString*)aTitle
withSelector:(SEL)actionButton
forDelegate:(UIViewController*)viewController{
self = [super init];
if (self) {
self.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 120);
self.imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image highlightedImage:highlightedImage];
self.imageView.center = self.center;
self.imageView.frame = CGRectMake(10, 0, HS_BUTTON_IMAGE_WIDTH, HS_BUTTON_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
self.imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
self.imageView.highlighted = NO;
[self addSubview:self.imageView];
self.title = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, HS_BUTTON_IMAGE_HEIGHT, HS_BUTTON_IMAGE_WIDTH + 20, 30)];
self.title.text = aTitle;
self.title.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
self.title.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.title.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self addSubview:self.title];
// This creates a transparent button over the view
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
//button.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
[button setFrame:self.frame];
[button addTarget:viewController action:actionButton forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self addSubview: button];
}
return self;}
In the ViewController I create the View like this:
m_newsHSButton = [[MBNHomeScreenButton alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:NEWS_SHADED_IMAGE]
andHighlightedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:NEWS_HIGHLIGHTED_IMAGE]
andTitle:#"News"
withSelector:#selector(newsButtonPressed)
forDelegate:self];
m_newsHSButton.center = CGPointMake(m_backgroundView.frame.size.width / 4, m_backgroundView.frame.size.height / 4);
[backgroundImgView addSubview:m_newsHSButton];
Still... the newsButtonPressed doesn't get called.
Can you help?
Thanks!
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[edit]
Ok... figured it out.. Thanks guys.
It was the fact that I was trying to add the view as a subview to a UIImageView with the last line:
[backgroundImgView addSubview:m_newsHSButton];
Apparently, it won't get touches anymore.
Thanks for the effort guys!

Answer 1

Try making the button a #property or instance variable in your custom view. Then call [m_newsHSButton.button addTarget:self action:actionButton forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; from the viewController.