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Adds form screen support to ProMotion.
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ProMotion-form

Note: ProMotion-form has been deprecated (blog post. We recommend using ProMotion-XLForm instead.


ProMotion-form provides a PM::FormScreen for the popular RubyMotion gem ProMotion.

form

Installation

gem 'ProMotion-form'

Then:

$ bundle
$ rake pod:install

Usage

Easily create a form screen. Powered by the CocoaPod FXForms.

Has all the methods of PM::Screen

class MyFormScreen < PM::FormScreen
  title "My Form"

  def form_data
    [{
      title: "Account Information",
      footer: "Some help text",
      cells: [{
        name: "email",
        title: "ID",
        type: :email,
        value: current_user.email,
        image: UIImage.imageNamed('email_icon')
      }, {
        name: "password",
        title: "New Password",
        type: :password,
        value: "",
        image: UIImage.imageNamed('key_icon')
      }]
    }]
  end

end

Can also be driven by properties available in FXForms Docs.

class MyFormScreen < PM::FormScreen
  title "My Form"

  def form_data
    [{
      title: "Account Information",
      footer: "Some help text",
      cells: [{
        key: "email",
        label: "ID",
        type: :email,
        "textLabel.font" => UIFont.fontWithName('Helvetica-Light', size: 25),
        value: current_user.email,
      }, {
        key: "password",
        label: "New Password",
        type: :password,
        "textLabel.color" => UIColor.blueColor,
        value: "",
      },
        name: "pin",
        title: "PIN",
        type: :password,
        value: nil,
        "textField.keyboardType" => UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad
      }]
    }]
  end

end

Parity with ProMotion::TableScreen

Ongoing work is being done to bring ProMotion-form cell hashes in-line with what you can do with PM::TableScreen.

Currently you can set:

image: '' # An instance of UIImage or a string of the name of the image in your /resources folder

What about Formotion?

We have used and like Formotion for some form-heavy apps, but it's a rather bulky gem. ProMotion-form works better with ProMotion and is a lot smaller.


Methods

form_data

Method that is called to build the form.

class AccountScreen < PM::FormScreen
  title "Account Info"

  def form_data
    [{
      title: "Account Information",
      footer: "Help text here",
      cells: [{
        name: "email",
        title: "ID",
        type: :email,
        value: current_user.email,
      }, {
        name: "password",
        title: "Password",
        type: :password,
        value: ""
      }, {
        name: :submit,
        title: "Submit",
        type: :button,
        action: "my_action:"
      }]
    }]
  end

  def my_action(cell)
    # cell is the calling cell, in this case the Submit cell
    render_form # use to save the data
  end
end

All form field properties from FXForms are exposed. A full listing can be found here in their Readme.

Additional "helper" field properties have been started, and are listed below:

  • name - a convenience alias to FXForms key. If no name is provided, title is converted to a symbol and used as the key.
  • title - when no title is provided, label and then name are used respectively.
  • cell_class - a convenience alias to FXForms cell, but with the ProMotion naming scheme.

Here are sample form fields with some explanation

{
  label: "Name", # or title
  name: :name, # defaults to symbol of snake_cased label/title
  type: :text, # :default is default...like a button
  options: [ "Water", "Fire", "Wind" ], # for a subform select (`type` can be anything)
  placeholder: "Your name",
  default: "Jamon", # Coming soon
  value: "Jamon Holmgren",
  action: :"my_action:", # use symbol literal with trailing colon due to Obj-C semantics,
  class: NSArray, # explicitly set the class of the field value
  template: { type: :image }, # set the field types of a collection (`class` must be NSArray or NSOrderedSet)
  sortable: true, # make the field sortable (`class` must be NSArray or NSOrderedSet)
  image: 'thumbnail', # the name of the image to display on the left side of the cell. You can also pass an instance of an image: UIImage.imageNamed('thumbnail')
}
Field types:
  • :default
  • :label
  • :text
  • :longtext
  • :url
  • :email
  • :phone - Coming soon
  • :password
  • :number
  • :integer
  • :unsigned
  • :float
  • :bitfield
  • :boolean
  • :option
  • :date
  • :time
  • :datetime
  • :image
Helper keys:
  • :cell or :cell_class - use a custom cell class
  • :properties - a flexible way to set cell properties (see Styling section below)
  • string keys - you can also define styling parameters as top-level strings
Common Properties:

The properties hash provides access to all UITableViewCell properties. Here are some examples of common properties:

  • textLabel - The UILabel used for displaying the :title text.

  • detailTextLabel - The UILabel used for displaying the :value text.

  • imageView - The UIImageView that is displayed on the left side of the cell. ProMotion-form provides the image: helper on the cell hash for specifying this image.

  • contentView - The default superview for content displayed by the cell.

  • backgroundColor - The background color of the cell.

  • backgroundView - The background view of the cell. The default is nil.

  • accessoryType - The icon that appears on the right side of the cell. You may specify one of the following constants:

    • UITableViewCellAccessoryNone (default)
    • UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator
    • UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton
    • UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark
    • UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailButton
  • accessoryView - An instance of your own custom accessory view.

  • selectionStyle - The background view that applies when the cell is tapped (selected). You may specify one of the following constants:

    • UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone
    • UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue
    • UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray
    • UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault (default)

Styling

Method 1: Put them into a hash

properties: {
  "accessoryView"        => CustomAccessory.new,
  "backgroundColor"      => UIColor.colorWhite,
  "detailTextLabel.font" => UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20),
}

Method 2: Use the style helper

def styles
  {
    basic: {
      "accessoryView"        => CustomAccessory.new,
      "detailTextLabel.font" => UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20),
    },
  }
end

...

  properties: style(:basic),
}

Method 3: Combine styles

def styles
  {
    basic: {
      "accessoryView"        => CustomAccessory.new,
      "detailTextLabel.font" => UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20),
    },
    alert: {
      "backgroundColor"      => UIColor.redColor,
    },
  }
end

...

  properties: style(:basic, :alert),
}

Method 4: Combine styles, with overrides (using '+')

properties: style(:basic, :alert) + {
  "backgroundColor" => UIColor.yellowColor,
}

Note that you can use symbols for keys instead of strings:

properties: {
  backgroundColor: UIColor.colorWhite,
  textLabel: {
    font: UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20)
  }
}

However, if you are combining styles, you may want to specify they keys as strings so that the rest of your styles are not overwritten:

{
  properties: style(:basic, :bold),
}

# ...

def styles
  {
    basic: {
      textLabel: {
        color: UIColor.redColor
        font: UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20)
      }
    },
    bold: {
      # This textLabel hash would overwrite the previous hash, so the red color would not be applied
      textLabel: {
        font: UIFont.fontWithName("MyBoldFont", size:20)
      }
    }
  }
end

Example of using strings with dot notation for combining styles:

def styles
  {
    basic: {
      'textLabel.color' => UIColor.redColor
      'textLabel.font'  => UIFont.fontWithName("MyFont", size:20)
    },
    bold: {
      # This textLabel would include the red color because we only chose to overwrite the font property
      'textLabel.font'  => UIFont.fontWithName("MyBoldFont", size:20)
    }
  }
end

update_form_data

Forces a reload of the form. This is useful when you have changed the hash you returned in your form_data method.

render_form

Returns a hash of the fields and values.

render_form # => {:email=>"jkdflsljkdsfad", :password=>"asdfadsfadsf", :submit=>""}

dismiss_keyboard

Dismisses the keyboard. Note that you may need to call this before render_form to ensure that you capture the input from the currently focused form element.


Class Methods

None yet.


Accessors

form_object (read only)

This is a Struct with a #fields method (which is used to build the form in FXForms) and writeable properties for each field.

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Install the gem dependencies: bundle install
  3. Install the CocoaPod dependencies: bundle exec rake pod:install
  4. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  5. Run the test suite: bundle exec rake spec
  6. Make your changes. Add some specs.
  7. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  8. Push to the branch (git push -u origin my-new-feature)
  9. Create new Pull Request