ALActionBlocks is an Objective-C category on UIControl that allows for handling of control events with blocks.

• Handle control events with blocks
• Remove blocks for control events
• Gives you a weak reference to your control in the block
• Works with all of your existing subclasses of UIControl

This category was inspired by [Dave DeLong] (https://github.com/davedelong)'s StackOverflow [answer] (http://stackoverflow.com/a/4582061/315074).

// Assuming you have a UIButton named 'button'
[button handleControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside withBlock:^(id weakControl) {
    NSLog(@"button pressed");
}];

// Assuming you have a property to a UIButton named 'button'
[self.button handleControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside withBlock:^(UIButton *weakButton) {
    NSLog(@"button pressed: %@", [weakButton titleForState:UIControlStateNormal]);
}];

[button removeActionBlocksForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

That's it!

Check out the demo project for more details.

ALActionBlocks is compatible with iOS 5.0 and above.

Yuuuup!

Andy LaVoy
@lavoy

ALActionBlocks is available under the [MIT] (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) license.