iOSCombobox

This is an iOS control that attempts to replicate the pretty <select> Safari web sites get by default. This control combines the standard UIPickerView with some custom drawing.

Summary

Right now, it is only tested on the iPhone. Ideally, the iPad version should display the UIPickerView in a popover window (which it currently does not do.)
Probably requires iOS 5+. It was developed against the iOS 6 SDK.
Uses ARC.

How to Use

Import iOSCombobox.h and iOSCombobox.m into your project.

To programatically create a combo box, put something like this in your view controller initialization routine:

CGRect myRect = CGRectMake(10.0f, 10.0f, 300.f, 32.0f);

iOSCombobox *myCombo = [[iOSCombobox alloc] initWithFrame:myRect];
[myCombo setValues:@[@"Hello", "World"]];
[myCombo setCurrentValue:@"World"];
[self.view addSubview:combo];

Adding from the interface builder may also be possible. I imagine it's as simple as adding a "view," then changing the type of the view to be iOSCombobox. I'll be testing that soon. I just wanted to get this readme written.

Using with BSKeyboardControls

If you're wanting to use this with BSKeyboardControls, you'll need to make a quick addition to their code. I've included the modified versions of BSKeyboardControls.h and BSKeyboardControls.m in this repository. Basically, in the…

- (void) setFields:(NSArray *)fields

method, you'll need to add an additional case to the "if" block you see within the "for" loop to accomodate the fact that this combo box is not a text field or a text view. You'll add…

else if ([field isKindOfClass:[iOSCombobox class]])
{
	[(iOSCombobox *)field setInputAccessoryView:self];
}

Another possible fix to this solution is simply asking the field if it responds to setInputAccessoryView. That way, you won't need to expand on this method whenever you want to add a different kind of control.

Help Wanted

Modernizing the drawing. I'm fairly new to iOS, but most of the example code out there is for older Core Graphics stuff. I can't tell you how many times I encountered an accepted Stack Overflow answer with a comment of "there is now a better way to do this." If anyone has suggestions on improving the draw method, please feel free to fork and submit a pull request.
iPad support. (Though I'll eventually have to do this myself)

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