SevenForm

A dynamic form system for iOS

Features

• Interface Builder and progmatic placement
• Creation from array
• Automatic keyboard management!!!
  • Automatic scrollview content inset adjustment
  • Automatic movement of current text field into view
• Simple function to determine if any field has a changed value (great for using with the back button)
• Different field entry types
  • Any keyboard
  • UIPickerView
  • UIDatePickerView
• Easy navigation for user with previous/next/done buttons

Goals

• Support iPad
• Support rotation
• Conversion to Swift at some point
• Hopefully bring all helper files internal to main files

Form creation example

SevenForm can be initiated in the Interface Builder or via code.

Interface Builder

Add a UIScrollView in Interface Builder and change the class to SevenForm.

ViewController.h

@property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet SevenFormView *sevenForm;

ViewController.m

sevenForm = [SevenFormViewController new];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initHeaderWithTitle:@"Personal Information"]];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"First Name" key:@"firstName"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocapitalizationType:UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocorrectionType:UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"Last Name" key:@"lastName"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocapitalizationType:UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocorrectionType:UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initDateFieldWithTitle:nil dateValue:nil placeholder:@"Date of Birth" key:@"dob"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setMaximumDate:[NSDate date]];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initPickerFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"Gender" items:@[@[@"", @"F", @"M"]] key:@"gender"]];

[sevenForm createForm];

Code

SevenForm *sevenForm = [SevenFormViewController new];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initHeaderWithTitle:@"Personal Information"]];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"First Name" key:@"firstName"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocapitalizationType:UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocorrectionType:UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"Last Name" key:@"lastName"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocapitalizationType:UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setAutocorrectionType:UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initDateFieldWithTitle:nil dateValue:nil placeholder:@"Date of Birth" key:@"dob"]];
[[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] lastObject] setMaximumDate:[NSDate date]];
[[sevenForm arrayOfObjectsToUse] addObject:[[SevenObject alloc] initPickerFieldWithTitle:nil value:nil placeholder:@"Gender" items:@[@[@"", @"F", @"M"]] key:@"gender"]];

[sevenForm createForm];