How to get value from segmented control to know which one was picked

ios objective-c uisegmentedcontrol
user3000847 picture user3000847 · Dec 26, 2013 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

I want to be able to use a segmented control, but I don't know how to get the value for which one was picked. I want to know so I can use a boolean value to determine between the two that were picked

Answer

Pradhyuman sinh picture Pradhyuman sinh · Dec 26, 2013

Add method for segment using 

[YourSegment addTarget:self action:@selector(segmentAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

- (IBAction)segmentAction:(UISegmentedControl *)sender
{    
    NSString * theTitle = [sender titleForSegmentAtIndex:sender.selectedSegmentIndex]
}

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