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How To Make a Custom Control Tutorial: A Reusable Slider

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Controls are the bread-and-butter of iOS apps. There are many provided in UIKit but this tutorial shows you how to make a custom control in Swift.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/2297-how-to-make-a-custom-control-tutorial-a-reusable-slider
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I use XCode 7.3.1
I have to change the function application in AppDelegate.swift to:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) → Bool {
return true
}

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hey, the addTarget method is not getting called!! what to do for using it

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You mean the rangeSliderValueChanged selector isn’t being called?

Make sure to use the exact name of the method, or even better #selector syntax with a newer version of Swift.

Also make sure the method isn’t private for implicitly private, by for example being in a private extension. You might also try markig the method with dynamic, which works even if the method is private.

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Same here: rangeSliderValueChanged is not called. I don’t know, maybe something broke while Xcode updated the project to the Swift 3.0. Also I had to silence some warnings manually, maybe this is the reason.

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Seems like there is a bug with Swift 3 when using .valueChanged. It doesn’t get called, but if you change to some other event like .touchDown it will trigger it :confused: very wierd

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I was trying to use this but when i drag it i have to issue

  1. First one is my rangeSliderValueChanged() Method is not getting called
  2. Second one is When i drag it it sucked after little bit dragging.
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If you have some problems with the rangeSliderValueChanged() Method, try this:

rangeSlider.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.rangeSliderValueChanged), for: .valueChanged)

In my case it solved the problem.

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For Swift 3…

Add the below single line code to the end of updateLayerFrames() function,

self.sendActions(for: .valueChanged)

and Pray for Apple God…God will surely help you.

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Thanks so much for this tutorial!
Had to spend some time to adjust the code for XCode 9 and Swift 4 - but everything works perfectly now.
Extremely useful lesson

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This tutorial is more than six months old, so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. We will update it as soon as possible. Thank you! :]