VPPDropDown 0.3.0

VPPDropDown is an iOS library that allows you to create dropdown-like menus in a table view, as seen in old Twitter 3 for iPhone.

You can create three kinds of dropdown menus:

• Disclosure, childs of drop down cell are treated as disclosure cells, useful for grouping detailed view controllers.
• Selection, childs of drop down cell are treated as selection cells, useful for editing preferences.
• Custom, childs of drop down cell should be decorated by the delegate.

This project contains a sample application using it. Just open the project in XCode, build it and run it.

For full documentation check out http://vicpenap.github.com/VPPDropDown

Using the component

First create a dropdown instance with any constructor. For example:

[[VPPDropDown alloc] initSelectionWithTitle:@"Selection Combo"
                                      tableView:self.tableView
                                      indexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:kRowDropDownSelection inSection:kSection1] 
                                       delegate:self 
                                  selectedIndex:1
                                  elementTitles:@"Option 1", @"Option 2", @"Option 3", nil];

Now, fill your table view data source and delegate for example as follows:

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    // Return the number of rows in the section.
    int rows = [VPPDropDown tableView:tableView numberOfExpandedRowsInSection:section];
    switch (section) {
        case kSection1:
            rows += kNumberOfRowsInSection1;
            break;
        case kSection2:
            rows += kNumberOfRowsInSection2;
            break;

        }
        return rows;
}

Where kNumberOfRowsInSection1 and kNumberOfRowsInSection2 indicate the amount of rows for those sections, without taking into account if the dropdowns are expanded or not.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    ...

    if ([VPPDropDown tableView:tableView dropdownsContainIndexPath:indexPath]) {
        return [VPPDropDown tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    }

    ...
}

And the delegate:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    ...

    if ([VPPDropDown tableView:tableView dropdownsContainIndexPath:indexPath]) {
        [VPPDropDown tableView:tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
        return;
    }

    ...
}

Now implement VPPDropDownDelegate and you're done!

Read the included example app for full information.

Screenshots

Changelog

• 2012/02/08 (0.3.0)
  • Added ability to modify some dropdown status' properties, such as expanded or selectedIndex.
  • Added height method to be able to change the row's height according to the associated dropdown's element.
• 2012/02/08 (0.2.2)
  • Fixed a bug that caused a crash when the first dropdown cell was not the first cell on its section.
• 2012/02/08 (0.2.1)
  • Fixed a bug when adding new dropdown to an indexPath that was already used.
• 2012/02/04 (0.2.0)
  • Added intelligent scrolling when expanding dropdowns.
  • Deprecated all methods using relative index paths.
• 2011/01/24 (0.1.0)
  • Initial release.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Víctor Pena Placer (@vicpenap) http://www.victorpena.es/

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