Custom checkboxes for Objective-C

U can use the TNCheckBoxGroup class to use some pre-built checkboxes, or you can extend it really easy to suit your own design. Every checkbox has a selected animation. When the text is longer then the available space, it will automatically wrap the text over multiple lines.

The current version supports 3 different checkboxes:

1. Circle checkbox

2. Square checkbox

3. Custom image checkbox

Installation

##Manual

• Just drag the files in the src folder to your project.
• Import the checkbox class you want to use.

##Cocoapods

• Add pod 'TNCheckBoxGroup' to your Podfile.
• Done.

How to use

Import the TNCheckBoxGroup.h file.

Create data objects for every option in your checkbox group. You can use the following data objects: TNCircularCheckBoxData, TNRectangularCheckBoxData, TNImageCheckBoxData.

Every data object extends TNCheckBoxData, but has specific properties you can set.

You can set the following properties on every data object:

The different classes have the following extra properties:

TNCircularCheckBoxData

Example

TNCircularCheckBoxData *bananaData = [[TNCircularCheckBoxData alloc] init];
bananaData.identifier = @"banana";
bananaData.labelText = @"Banana";
bananaData.checked = YES;
bananaData.borderColor = [UIColor blackColor];
bananaData.circleColor = [UIColor blackColor];
bananaData.borderRadius = 20;
bananaData.circleRadius = 15;

TNRectangularCheckBoxData

Example

TNRectangularCheckBoxData *tennisData = [[TNRectangularCheckBoxData alloc] init];
tennisData.identifier = @"tennis";
tennisData.labelText = @"Tennis";
tennisData.borderColor = [UIColor grayColor];
tennisData.rectangleColor = [UIColor grayColor];
tennisData.borderWidth = tennisData.borderHeight = 20;
tennisData.rectangleWidth = tennisData.rectangleHeight = 15;

TNImageCheckBoxData

Example

TNImageCheckBoxData *manData = [[TNImageCheckBoxData alloc] init];
manData.identifier = @"man";
manData.labelText = @"Man";
manData.checkedImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"checked"];
manData.uncheckedImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"unchecked"];

When you have created the different data objects, you can create an instance of TNCheckBoxGroup and pass an array with the data objects and set the layout. The style can be horizontal or vertical.

You can also set the margin between each item via the marginBetweenItems property. By default it's set to 15 pixels.

If you want, you can also set the identifier property to have a human readable name for the group.

Call the create method and set the position property to place the group at a specific point. Don't worry about the frame, this will be automatically calculated. And add the object to the view hierarchy.

self.myGroup = [[TNCheckBoxGroup alloc] initWithCheckBoxData:@[manData, womanData] style:TNCheckBoxLayoutVertical];
[self.myGroup create];
self.myGroup.position = CGPointMake(25, 25);

[self addSubview:self.myGroup];

Done!

Getting change notifications

When the state of the checkbox group has changed, an NSNotification is broadcasted.

You can listen to the GROUP_CHANGED message.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(myGroupGotUpdated:) name:GROUP_CHANGED object:self.myGroup];

Getting list of checked checkboxes

Every TNCheckBoxGroup instance has a property checkedCheckBoxes, this will return an array with all checked checkboxes.

Getting list of unchecked checkboxes

Every TNCheckBoxGroup instance has a property uncheckedCheckBoxes, this will return an array with all unchecked checkboxes.

Styling checkboxes

Group-level

If you want to provide the same label font and color for all checkboxes in a specific group, you can set the labelFont and labelColor properties.

Checkbox-level

If you want to provide different label fonts and/or colors for specific checkboxes in a group, you can set the labelFont and labelColor properties on the TNCheckBox subclass.

Creating custom checkboxes

If you want it is really easy to add your own custom checkboxes.

1. Create a data model class in which you store the specific data for your checkbox. This class needs to extend TNCheckBoxData.

2. Create a checkbox class which extends TNCheckBox.

3. Override the setup method (don't forget to call the super method at the end).

4. Override the createCheckbox method, here you can draw your custom checkbox.

5. Override the checkWithAnimation: method to supply your own animations when the checkbox state changes.

6. There is no step 6.

Demo

There is a demo project added to this repository, so you can see how it works.

License

TNCheckBoxGroup published under the MIT license:

Copyright (C) 2014, Frederik Jacques

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