How do I disable all buttons when one gets pressed in XCode? - ios

Question

How do I make it so that when I press one button in XCode, the rest of the buttons (including the one that was pressed) become disabled? Of course I still want the function to be carried out by the button that gets pressed. I just don't want the users to be able to press any button more than once, nor do I want them to be able to press another button after they've already pressed a first one. Below are my IBActions for my two buttons in this case:
#IBAction func addVote1(sender: AnyObject) {
var query = PFQuery(className: "VoteCount")
query.getObjectInBackgroundWithId("BiEM17uUYT") {
(voteCount1: PFObject!, error: NSError!) ->Void in
if error != nil {
NSLog("%#", error)
} else {
voteCount1.incrementKey("votes")
voteCount1.saveInBackgroundWithTarget(nil, selector: nil)
}
let votes = voteCount1["votes"] as Int
let votes2 = voteCount1["votes2"] as Int
self.pollResults1.text = "\(votes) votes \(votes2) votes"
}
}
#IBAction func addVote2(sender: AnyObject) {
var query = PFQuery(className: "VoteCount")
query.getObjectInBackgroundWithId("BiEM17uUYT") {
(voteCount1: PFObject!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
if error != nil {
NSLog("%#", error)
} else {
voteCount1.incrementKey("votes2")
voteCount1.saveInBackgroundWithTarget(nil, selector: nil)
}
let votes = voteCount1["votes"] as Int
let votes2 = voteCount1["votes2"] as Int
self.pollResults2.text = "\(votes) votes \(votes2) votes"
}
}
}

Answer 1

Set up #IBOutlet properties for the buttons if you haven't already, then add a lazy var array of the buttons. In the button handler, set each button's enabled property to false.
class ViewController {
#IBOutlet var button1: UIButton!
#IBOutlet var button2: UIButton!
lazy var buttons: [UIButton] = [self.button1, self.button2]
// ...
#IBAction func addVote1(sender: AnyObject) {
for button in self.buttons {
button.enabled = false
}
// ...
}
}

Answer 2

You can loop through all subview in UIView and find if is a UIButton, if is you can disable the button.
func disableButtons() {
for views in view.subviews {
if let button = views as? UIButton {
button.enabled = false
}
}
}

Answer 3

Do one thing, give unique Tag to all buttons. After that create the method which creates button and disable them by using button tags
func disableButton()
{
for tagvalue in 101...102
{
var btnTemp = self.view.viewWithTag(tagvalue) as UIButton;
btnTemp.enabled = false;
}
}
Add above method in your button, as shown in below code
#IBAction func addVote1(sender: AnyObject)
{
//Your code
disableButton()
}
#IBAction func addVote2(sender: AnyObject)
{
//Your code
disableButton()
}

Answer 4

The easiest way is to add a UIView with a background color of UIColor.clearColor() on top. It's invisible and captures all taps.
class ViewController {
private var uiBlocker = UIView()
override func viewDidLoad() {
uiBlocker.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
}
#IBAction func buttonAction() {
view.addSubView(uiBlocker)
[stuff you want to do]
uiBlocker.removeFromSuperView()
}
}

Answer 5

let subviews : NSArray = headerView.subviews as NSArray
for button in subviews {
if let button = button as? UIButton {
//let btn = button as! UIButton
button.isSelected = false
}
}
sender.isSelected = true