How to Change textLabel property in UIButton programmatically in iOS?

ios, label, title, uibutton

Solution

It should be:

[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState: UIControlStateNormal];

You need to pass the `state` as well. You can check other `state`'s here.

You can then do something like this:

[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState: UIControlStateNormal];
[myButton setTitle:@"Stop" forState: UIControlStateSelected];

Problem

I have a `UIButton` that should have 2 statuses - "Play" and "Pause"; i.e. - at the first time the user sees it it says "Play" and then whenever the user clicks it it should switch between "Play" and "Pause". I managed to create the controller itself - the content is played and paused properly - but I cannot seem to change the UIButton Text Label text. I use: ``` myButton.titleLabel.text = @"Play"; myButton.titleLabel.text = @"Pause"; ``` It's not working. The text is not changing. I also tried [myButton.titleLabel setText:@"Pause"] and it's not working as well. How can I set it?

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