Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

It supports any field type you want, SurveyField has a property of fieldClass, so you can set it to [UITextView class] and it will do it's best to use it

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by wess » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

omnibobble wrote: post #2

Really cool but it would benefit from a nice demo page.

Yeah, I want to put together a really nice page for it, with very involved docs and example usage. It's coming, just wanted to get the lib out ;)

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by doe88 » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 2:47 PM UTC

A screenshot of the included example http://i.imgur.com/hJHYq.png

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by sjm » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

This is cool :) I've actually created something similar for a work-related project, but it's specifically based off Core Data entities and uses QuickDialog for creating and managing the elements (so supporting all the Core Data attribute types is easy, and you get the benefit of the QuickDialog style provider/skinning support). For customisation and validation I use Core Data's user info on properties, which means it's easy to create fully-fledged forms with all attribute types and entity relationship types, predicates, and lots of other little things I've needed with basically zero coding.

It's kind of turned into a DSL specified within the Core Data model editor, but with the nature of the project it was for it's saved me a lot of time. I'd love to open-source it if there was interest, but I'd have to look into the logistics :)

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by jrnkntl » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 3:15 PM UTC

Nice work!

Some other iOS forms libs:

- QuickDialog / https://github.com/escoz/quickdialog

- ELCTextFieldCell / https://github.com/elc/ELCTextFieldCell

- IBAForms / https://github.com/ittybittydude/IBAForms

- FormKit.m / https://github.com/brunow/FormKit.m

I suggest you submit it to http://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/new as well.

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by pretz » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 3:16 PM UTC

This looks well designed and useful, but whenever I see a new project like this my first question is "What makes this different?"

There are a number of existing form libraries for iOS* that have been around for a while at differing levels of complexity. Could you give a brief summary of why you wrote a new library instead of using one of the existing ones? Putting an explanation like that in the readme would be a great way to explain why you did all this work.

*: https://github.com/chrismiles/EZForm https://github.com/escoz/QuickDialog https://github.com/ittybittydude/IBAForms

Re: Survey: Simple iOS Forms library

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Post by wess » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

jrnkntl wrote: post #8

Nice work! Some other iOS forms libs: - QuickDialog / https://github.com/escoz/quickdialog - ELCTextFieldCell / https://github.com/elc/ELCTextFieldCell - IBAForms / https://github.com/ittybittydude/IBAForms - FormKit.m / https://github.com/brunow/FormKit.m I suggest you submit it to http://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/new as well.

Submitted to Cocoacontrols, thanks for the suggestion!