//
//  StackableViewController.h
//  myverizon
//
//  Created by Scott Pfeil on 3/26/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Verizon Wireless. All rights reserved.
//
//  This view controller is here to enable faster development of standard form screens. Put all ui objects that you want to be displayed in a top down order in an array and then call the generateFormWithUIArray. Any type can go in it.

#import <MVMCoreUI/ProgrammaticScrollViewController.h>

@interface StackableViewController : ProgrammaticScrollViewController

// An array of ui elements that will be spaced out on the screen top to bottom from index 0 to formUIArray.count.
@property (nullable, strong, nonatomic) NSArray *formUIArray;

// Generates the form view with the passed in form ui array.
- (void)generateFormViewWithUIArray:(nullable NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray;
- (void)generateFormView:(nullable UIView *)view withUIArrayForConstrainingViews:(nullable NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray;
    
// Returns the spacing that should surround the passed in item. Subclass this to change spacing.
- (UIEdgeInsets)spaceAroundUIObject:(nullable id)object;

// When using constraining views in the form array, resets the space that should surround each element.
- (void)resetSpaceForFormArrayWithConstrainingViews;

// Removes all the subviews in the form ui array.
- (void)removeUIViews;

// Removes all the subviews in the passed in array.
+ (void)removeUIViews:(nullable NSArray <UIView *>*)views;

// Returns the standard space around ui objects.
+ (UIEdgeInsets)standardSpaceAroundUIObject;
    
// Consolidates generateFormViewWithUIArray and spaceArroundUIObject into one class object so other view controllers can take advantage of these functions.
+ (void)populateView:(nonnull UIView *)view withUIArray:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;
+ (void)populateViewHorizontally:(nonnull UIView *)view withUIArray:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;
+ (void)populateView:(nonnull UIView *)view withUIArrayForConstrainingViews:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;

// Does the actual laying out. The formuiarray views should already be added to the view.
+ (void)autoLayoutView:(nonnull UIView *)view withUIArray:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;
+ (void)autoLayoutViewHorizontally:(nonnull UIView *)view withUIArray:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;
+ (void)autoLayoutViewWithConstrainingViewsWithUIArray:(nonnull NSArray <UIView *>*)formUIArray withSpacingBlock:(nonnull UIEdgeInsets (^) (id _Nullable object))spacingBlock;

@end