highlighted shadow color - iphone

Question

How to set the shadowColor of a highlighted Text?
titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:20.0f/255.0f green:50.0f/255.0f blue:90.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
titleLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
titleLabel.shadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1.0);
I'm looking for something like: titleLabel.highlightedTextColor.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];

Answer 1

I was annoyed by this oversight from Apple, too, and created a subclass of UILabel that adds the missing highlightedShadowColor and highlightedShadowOffset properties.
By default it just disables the shadow in highlighted mode and sets the offset to the reverse of the standard offset.
#interface FTLabel : UILabel
#property(nonatomic, strong) UIColor *highlightedShadowColor;
#property(nonatomic) CGSize highlightedShadowOffset;
#end
#interface FTLabel ()
#property(nonatomic, strong) UIColor *savedShadowColor;
#property(nonatomic) CGSize savedShadowOffset;
#end
#implementation FTLabel
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
if ((self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder])) {
[self configure];
}
return self;
}
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
if ((self = [super initWithFrame:frame])) {
[self configure];
}
return self;
}
- (void)configure {
self.highlightedShadowColor = nil;
self.highlightedShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(self.shadowOffset.width * (-1), self.shadowOffset.height * (-1));
self.savedShadowColor = self.shadowColor;
self.savedShadowOffset = self.shadowOffset;
}
- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted {
[super setHighlighted:highlighted];
self.shadowColor = self.highlighted ? self.highlightedShadowColor : self.savedShadowColor;
self.shadowOffset = self.highlighted ? self.highlightedShadowOffset : self.savedShadowOffset;
}
#end

Answer 2

This should work:
if(!yourlabel.highlighed)
{
[yourLabel setShadowColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
}
else
{
[yourLabel setShadowColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
}
EDIT:
A UIlabel has a property called highlighted and is a BOOL. You can check if it's true or not and change the shadow color at the moment you want it done.

Answer 3

I had the same issue.
What I did in the end is to create a second UILabel underneath the primary UILabel to act as a shadow.
Don't set shadows on your primary and shadow labels. For the shadow label, set the 'Normal Color' to what you wanted your shadow color to be and set the highlighted color to 'Clear Color'.
Obviously you have to update the shadow label each time you update the primary label. Not a big price to pay in many cases.
Hope that helps!