SwiftUI Favorite Button Constructor

Swift
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One thing I don’t like about Swift and SwiftUI is overloaded constructors, there’s at least 3 ways to create a button.

What’s your favorite way?

Compact constructor.

Button( "Label" ) {
 // code goes here
}

or

Button( "Label", systemImage: "plus" ) { // code goes here }

Action first then label

Button( action: { // code goes here } ) {
 HStack{ 
  Image( systemName: "plus" )
  Text( "Label" )
 }
}

Another way of action first then label.

Button {
 // code goes here
} label: {
 Text( "Label" )
}

The last two allow for far more control over the button label, including images that are not SF Symbols, but I think I prefer the compact version.

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It depends on what you want to achieve. There is a great choice of options but we need to keep that stuff in our brain…
I prefer a somewhat overwhelming number of options to a bare-bones system where I get stuck if something beyond very basic UI functionality is needed.

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Sometimes compact, often the 3. example. For a simple ‘Quit’, I’d use of the compact one…

Yes, the constructors are not always ‘best’

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Thankfully the auto complete in Xcode and the Swift language make having multiple constructors much easier than it was with Xojo.

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