In previous post, I shared you how to show an animated popup, and explained how to customize your popup. In this post, I share how I use the popup in my projects with confirmation and information alert.
An information popup is used to alert user about some important information, like this
A confirmation alert is very useful to warn user about next action, for instance, confirm to remove a photo, confirm a withdrawal request… In this post, I will extend the knPopup
to knConfirmation
to display a confirmation popup.
The idea is same to the previous post, you can customize any UI you want in setupView
.
Define new controls
class knConfirmation: knPopup {
private let iconImgView = UIMaker.makeImageView()
let titleLabel = UIMaker.makeLabel(font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 18),
color: UIColor.darkGray, numberOfLines: 2,
alignment: .center)
let contentLabel = UIMaker.makeLabel(font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15),
color: UIColor.lightGray, numberOfLines: 0,
alignment: .center)
private let stack = UIMaker.makeStackView()
private let cancelButton = UIMaker.makeButton(titleColor: .darkGray,
font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15),
cornerRadius: 27,
borderWidth: 1,
borderColor: .darkGray)
private let buttonStack = UIMaker.makeStackView(axis: .horizontal, distributon: UIStackView.Distribution.fill, alignment: UIStackView.Alignment.fill, space: 16)
required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder: aDecoder)
setupView()
}
}
A confirmation popup needs:
- 1 icon (optional)
- 2 labels: title (optional), content
- 2 buttons: 1 for accept action, 1 for reject action (optional). We have
okButton
inknPopup
, just need one more for reject action - 2 stack views: 1 to contain 2 buttons, 1 to contain all controls
Layout the view
We will setup auto layout for all controls by code in setupView
function
override func setupView() {
// (1)
buttonStack.addViews(cancelButton, okButton)
cancelButton.size(toView: okButton)
okButton.vertical(toView: buttonStack)
cancelButton.centerY(toView: okButton)
// (2)
let spaceView = UIMaker.makeView()
spaceView.height(12)
stack.addViews(iconImgView, titleLabel, contentLabel, spaceView, buttonStack)
iconImgView.square(edge: 56)
iconImgView.centerX(toView: stack)
titleLabel.horizontal(toView: stack, space: 16)
contentLabel.horizontal(toView: stack, space: 16)
buttonStack.horizontal(toView: stack, space: 16)
// (3)
container.addSubview(stack)
stack.fill(toView: container, space: UIEdgeInsets(top: 16, bottom: 16))
okButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(didSelectOK), for: .touchUpInside)
cancelButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(dismiss), for: .touchUpInside)
}
(1)
-
buttonStack
is aUIStackView
, so we can’taddSubviews
as usual, but have toaddArrangedSubview
. I extend to new functionaddViews
to shorten the name. :) -
buttonStack
contains the button, so when you don’t need cancel button, you can remove it frombuttonStack
, andokButton
automatically fill thesuperView
. That’s why I choose UIStackView for this UI.
(2)
- In stackView, you can’t change specific space between 2 views, so I did this trick. Insert a space view with a height I want.
(3)
- We need to add
stack
tocontainer
. Thecontainer
is setup to animate when appear/disappear. So we don’t need to care about animation anymore.
Dynamically display what you want
Some popups, you need to show an icon to make it be colorful. Others don’t need title and cancel button. We will dynamically init what we want.
init(icon: UIImage? = nil, title: String? = nil, content: String, okTitle: String? = nil, cancelTitle: String? = nil) {
super.init(frame: .zero)
set(icon: icon, title: title, content: content, okTitle: okTitle, cancelTitle: cancelTitle)
}
private func set(icon: UIImage? = nil, title: String? = nil, content: String, okTitle: String? = nil, cancelTitle: String? = nil) {
if icon == nil {
iconImgView.removeFromSuperview()
} else {
iconImgView.image = icon
}
if title == nil {
titleLabel.removeFromSuperview()
} else {
titleLabel.text = title
}
contentLabel.text = content
if okTitle != nil {
okButton.setTitle(okTitle, for: .normal)
}
if cancelTitle == nil {
cancelButton.removeFromSuperview()
} else {
cancelButton.setTitle(cancelTitle, for: .normal)
}
}
Just pass nil
or remove that param from the init
function. What param is nil, the related control will be removed from UI.
Run the app
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Live sample
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Conclusion
Hope this popup can help you save your time and efforts to display a popup. Customize what you want and share it to me via this repository.
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