Can you manipulate a non state property? - creating a button

Hi,

First time posting here :slight_smile: I hope I can get some help from code crew!

In my app, Im creating a button view that has two properties, one state property called “pressed” and one var enabled. (Both are bool variables).

In the button action, i toggle the pressed property.
The button gets disabled when enabled that was passed on from parent view is not true.

However, I also want the buttons to be pressed = false when enable is not true.

The solution i came up with was to call button with pressed: false when enabled: false.
However this doesn’t work - i think its because “pressed” is a @State property.
Is there a way to use toggle() without the property being a state property?

Is there a better solution in making the pressed property false when enabled is false?

my button view looks like this:
struct GuitarFretButton: View {
@State public var pressed = false
var enabled: Bool

var body: some View {
    
    Button {
        pressed.toggle()
    } label: {
        Image(systemName: pressed == false ? "circle" : "circle.fill")
        
    }
    .accentColor(.red)
    .disabled(!enabled)
    
    
}

}

I’m not quite sure what you’re going for. But you can set the pressed property when the View struct appears:

struct GuitarFretButton: View {
    @State public var pressed = false
    var enabled: Bool
    
    var body: some View {
        Button {
            pressed.toggle()
        } label: {
            Image(systemName: pressed == false ? "circle" : "circle.fill")
            
        }
        .accentColor(.red)
        .disabled(!enabled)
        .onAppear {
            pressed = enabled
        }
    }
}

Also, when posting code to these forums, please place three backticks ``` on the line before your code and three backticks ``` on the line after your code so that it will be formatted properly. You can also highlight an entire code block and click the </> button on the toolbar to wrap the block for you.

Thank you :slight_smile: i will definitely post code that way next time!

I was able to figure out what to do (used something i learned from calculator app operation lesson from cwc), and i mistakenly was trying to save the pressed property in guitar fret model not view model.

Anyways things are working now and this is what i did o the button view:


struct GuitarFretButton: View {
    
    @EnvironmentObject var userChord:GuitarChordModel
    
    var pressed: Bool
    var enabled: Bool
    //var fret: Int
    //var string: Int

    var toggleFunction: () -> ()
    
    // Do not make a @State variable when you want property to take in something and change data
    
    var body: some View {
        
        Button {
            //userChord.fretPressed[fret][string].toggle()
            toggleFunction()
        } label: {
            Image(systemName: pressed == false ? "circle" : "circle.fill")
            
        }
        .accentColor(.red)
        .disabled(!enabled)
    
    }
}


Thank you,
S