Cocoa Dropdown Notification

Eeasy to use component to display notification for user.

Installation

1. Add QuartzCore framework into your project
2. Copy PSDropNotificationComponent directory into your project

Example of usage

Simplest way is:

PSDropdownNotificationData *data = [[PSDropdownNotificationData alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" message:@"Message"];
[[PSDropdownNotificationCenter sharedInstance] showNotification:data];

Also you can use NSNotificationCenter

//in app delegate create sharedInstance of PSDropdownNotificationCenter
[PSDropdownNotificationCenter sharedInstance];

//then create PSDropdownNotificationData
PSDropdownNotificationData *data = [[PSDropdownNotificationData alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" message:@"Message"];
                                                                         
//and finally post notification
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:PSNotificationCenterEventShowNotification object:data];

Data properties

• int uniqueIndetifier

  notification unique indetifier, if notification is visible notification with the same id will be not displayed property is ignored if set to default value INT_MAX

• NSString *title

  notification title

• NSString *message

  notification message

• UIImage *image

  notification image if nil, image will be ignored

• CFTimeInterval displayDuration

  duration of notification life on screen

• PSDropdownNotificationApperiance *apperiance

  copy of default apperiance that can be overrided for notification

Apperiance

You can change apperiance of invidual notification by accesing apperiance property in PSDropdownNotificationData

data.apperiance.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.5 alpha:1.0];
data.apperiance.messageColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.5 alpha:1.0];
data.apperiance.verticalMargin = 7.0;
data.apperiance.titleColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

or change global settings by accesing [PSDropdownNotificationCenter apperiance]

PSDropdownNotificationCenter.apperiance.bottomHLineColor = nil;
PSDropdownNotificationCenter.apperiance.titleFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:26.0f];
PSDropdownNotificationCenter.apperiance.titleVSpacing = 8.0;
PSDropdownNotificationCenter.apperiance.messageColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

Apperiance properties

• CGFloat shadowOpacity

  sets shadow under notification if 0 shadown is disabled

• CGFloat verticalMargin

  vertical marigin in px between content and notification bounds

• CGFloat horizontalMargin

  horizontal marigin in px between content and notification bounds

• CGFloat imageWidth

  total width of image in notification

• CGFloat imageHSpacing

  horizontal distance in pixels between image and title

• CGFloat titleVSpacing

  vertical distance between title and message

• UIFont *titleFont

  title font

• UIFont *messageFont

  message font

• UIColor *backgroundColor

  notification background color

• UIImage *backgroundImage

  notification background image

• UIColor *titleColor

  color of title text

• UIColor *messageColor

  color of message text

• UIColor *bottomHLineColor

  color of bottom horizontal line, if nil line will not appear