Individual buttons in cocos2d - cocos2d-iphone

Question

Most talk about buttons for cocos2d seems to be directed to CCMenu, where CCMenu AFAIK is meant for having a row or column in center of screen.
I need to place buttons randomly on screen and have yet to find a simple out of the box solution for this. I did try CCControlButton but didn't get it to work (CCScale9Sprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName loads incorrectly from sprite atlas).

Answer 1

For now I try to use this. It uses only one button in each CCMenu. So my screen will have lots of CCMenu instances, one for each button.
+(CCMenu*)button:(NSString*)spriteframename at:(const CGPoint)POINT block:(void(^)(id sender))block {
CCSprite* sprite1 = [CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:spriteframename];
CCSprite* sprite2 = [CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:spriteframename];
CCMenuItem* menuitem = [CCMenuItemImage itemWithNormalSprite:sprite1 selectedSprite:sprite2 block:block];
CCMenu* menu = [CCMenu menuWithItems:menuitem, nil];
menu.contentSize = sprite1.contentSize;
menu.position = POINT;
return menu;
}

Answer 2

This is a better way which I changed to.
Put this in like init:
CCMenuItem* menuitemRetry = [[self class] buttonWithSpriteframenameOff:#"retry_off.png" on:#"retry_on.png" at:ccp(198, 184) block:^(id sender) {
// Do something
}];
CCMenuItem* menuitemMenu = [[self class] buttonWithSpriteframenameOff:#"menu_off.png" on:#"menu_on.png" at:ccp(362, 184) block:^(id sender) {
// Do something else
}];
CCMenu* menuLow = [CCMenu menuWithItems:menuitemMenu, menuitemRetry, nil];
menuLow.position = CGPointZero;
[self addChild:menuLow];
This also needed
+(CCMenuItem*)buttonWithSpriteframenameOff:(NSString*)spriteframenameOff on:(NSString*)spriteframeOn at:(const CGPoint)POINT block:(void(^)(id sender))block {
CCMenuItem* menuitem = [CCMenuItemImage itemWithNormalSprite:[CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:spriteframenameOff] selectedSprite:[CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:spriteframeOn] block:block];
menuitem.position = POINT;
return menuitem;
}