iOS Assigning string values to a bunch of buttons programatically

[theprizerevealed]

Is there some way to assign labels to buttons without writing each button names programmatically.

Let's say you have an array:

 array: [String] = ["cat", "dog", "mouse", "beaver"]

and you have four buttons, ButtonOne, ButtonTwo, ButtonThree, ButtonFour

is there someway to assign each value of an array to each of the four buttons without actually typing out

ButtonOne.setTitle(array[0])
ButtonTwo.setTitle(array[1])

et cetera

through a control loop?

 

[casperes1996]

I mean yes; But it depends how you've access to the buttons.

Obviously if you have all the buttons in an array you can just go:

for b in buttons.indices {
buttons.text = array
}

or with setTitle if you prefer.

Otherwise, if the buttons come from InterfaceBuilder and you've assigned tags to them in IB you can use the view.getView(tag or whatever that method is called with a range loop.

Or if all the buttons are individual references but have similar naming structure like button1 button2 button3 you can use reflection I guess to get all the child variables of the class/struct and run through them with the Mirror struct.