Why is my button not working in Swift Playgrounds? - ios

Question

I am trying to make a playground and I have a button that says "Let's play!" and moves into a new view controller.
I looked at the code from this website and put it into my code:
http://lab.dejaworks.com/ios-swift-3-playground-uibutton-action/
This is all of my code (like, all of it):
import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport
class MyViewController : UIViewController {
override func loadView() {
//Introduction
let view = UIView()
view.backgroundColor = .red
//title
func labelCool() {
let label = UILabel()
label.frame = CGRect(x: 50, y: 300, width: 400, height: 100)
label.text = "Add-Add - A Wonderful Game!"
//label.frame = CGRect(x: 150, y: 200, width: 200, height: 20)
label.numberOfLines = 3
label.font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold", size: 30)
UILabel.animate (withDuration: 10.0, animations:{
label.textColor = .black
})
UILabel.animate(withDuration: 5.0, animations:{
label.textColor = .blue
})
view.addSubview(label)
}
labelCool()
//subtitle
let subtitle = UILabel()
subtitle.frame = CGRect(x: 50, y: 400, width: 200, height: 50)
subtitle.text = "Curated and Created by Yours Truly, Adit Dayal!"
subtitle.numberOfLines = 4
self.view = view
view.addSubview(subtitle)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
class Responder : NSObject {
#objc func action() {
print("Yay!")
}
}
let responder = Responder()
//next page
let button = UIButton(frame : CGRect(x: 0, y: 500, width: 200, height: 50))
button.setTitle("Let's Play!", for: .normal)
button.backgroundColor = .blue
button.addTarget(responder, action: #selector(Responder.action), for: .touchUpInside)
view.addSubview(button)
}
}
class gameViewController: UIViewController {
}
// Present the view controller in the Live View window
PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = MyViewController()
For now, I just want the button to display "Yay!" when clicked, but it is doing nothing!
Does anyone know why? (I'm on a bit of a time constraint)
Thank you so much,
Adit Dayal

Answer 1

Your Responder class is inside the viewDidLoad() function put the class outside like so
class Responder : NSObject {
#objc func action() {
print("Yay!")
}
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
let responder = Responder()
//next page
let button = UIButton(frame : CGRect(x: 0, y: 500, width: 200, height: 50))
button.setTitle("Let's Play!", for: .normal)
button.backgroundColor = .blue
button.addTarget(responder, action: #selector(responder.action), for: .touchUpInside)
view.addSubview(button)
}

Answer 2

The problem is that you are creating the responder object inside the viewDidLoad, as a local variable; this cause the object to be destroyed when the function ends (but we want that object alive even after). You have to retain that object, so instead of creating a local variable, create an instance variable by simply saving it as a class scope:
class Responder : NSObject {
#objc func action() {
print("Yay!")
}
}
let responder = Responder() // this is now outside the viewDidLoad, so it's an instance variable
override func viewDidLoad() {
//next page
let button = UIButton(frame : CGRect(x: 0, y: 500, width: 200, height: 50))
button.setTitle("Let's Play!", for: .normal)
button.backgroundColor = .blue
button.addTarget(responder, action: #selector(Responder.action), for: .touchUpInside)
view.addSubview(button)
}