!!Very raw state!!

Alternative to FormObjects, focused on desktop Mathematica rather than Wolfram Cloud.

The idea is to borrow as much as possible from FormObjects/FormFunctions and to adapt it for desktop gui creators' sake.

There are a few problems with FormObjects in MMA, which otherwise work well within the Cloud environment, that prompted me to create it.

• extracting values

  Setting[formObject] @ "x" is not very handy,

  WLForms` allows you to do form["x"]. Or form["State"] to get them all.

• setting values

  formObject @ <|"x" -> 1|> is not very idiomatic and together with Setting it makes creating own field controllers weird

  WLForms` allows you to do form["x"] = 1

• custom field controllers

  The formObject["x"] automatically creating a controller is nice but it is either this or you need to assemble your controller from scratch.

  WLForms` allows you to do FieldController @ whatever[Dynamic[form@"x"]] and the FieldController wrapper will take care of labeling it in case of interpretation failure. Future releases will bring more features.

  I am also not a fan of warnings displayed as a part of the same layer of layout because it moves/changes the structure of everything so WLForms` uses AttachedCell to display warnings.

For a small example please see Wiki.

Go to 'releases' tab and download appropriate .paclet file.

Run PacletInstall @ path/to/the.paclet file

If you don't have MPM` yet, run:

Import[" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubapod/mpm/master/install.m"]

and then:

Needs @ "MPM`"     
MPMInstall["kubapod", "wlforms"]