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Gloss Gradient Button

Have you ever seen the following interesting article?

Cocoa with Love - Drawing Gloss Gradients in Core Graphics

Starting from this article/code I developed a simple Object called GlossGradientButton that you can add to your iPhone/iPad views. To do this you must:

• download and open my Xcode project linked below
• copy GlossGradientButton files group into your project
• #import "GlossGradientButton.h" into the target View header
• write the following code into the target View implementation :

GlossGradientButton *glossGradientButton =

[[ GlossGradientButton alloc ]

initWithFrame : CGRectMake ( 75 , 164 , 170 , 80 )

withCornerRadius : 20

withTint :

[ UIColor colorWithRed : 0 green : 0.403 blue : 0.813 alpha : 1 ]

withBorderWidth : 1

withBorderColor :

[ UIColor colorWithRed : 0 green : 0.403 blue : 0.813 alpha : 1 ]

withTextColor :

[ UIColor whiteColor ]

withFont :

[ UIFont fontWithName : @"Marker Felt" size : 20 ]];

[glossGradientButton setTitle : @"Tap me!"

forState : UIControlStateNormal ];

[ self . view addSubview :glossGradientButton];

[glossGradientButton release ];

This is a preview of how the GlossGradientButton looks like:

Very useful links:

• http://cocoawithlove.com/2008/09/drawing-gloss-gradients-in-coregraphics.html
• http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/2009/08/how-to-draw-shapes-with-core-graphics/
• http://github.com/ars/uicolor-utilities
• http://bravobug.com/news/?p=448
• http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-929858.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2385046/uiview-rounded-corners-question
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2503721/how-listen-for-uibutton-state-change
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565989/adding-left-button-to-uinavigationbar-iphone
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227078/creating-a-left-arrow-button-like- uinavigationbars-back-style-on-a-uitoolbar

Thanks to:

• http://dragdrop.it

This is a first working version , not perfect yet. Highlighted were expecially the Needs some upgrades.

GlossGradientButton Download Xcode Project

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