Animate the enabling of a UIBarButtonItem? - iphone

Is there a way to animate enabling or disabling a button? I've tried the following with no success. I'm guessing at this point that the enabled property cannot be animated like opacity can – but I hope I'm wrong.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0f];
theButton.enabled = YES;
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView commitAnimations];
I can't believe there isn't a setEnabled:(BOOL)enabled animated:(BOOL)animated method.

This is actually really easy. UIView.transitionWithView can take a snapshot of any view and cross-dissolve from the snapshot to the new state of the view. You can use that capability to animate a lot of changes, including enabled.
Just use the View Controller's view as the target view, specify TransitionCrossDissolve, then animate as you would normally.
UIView.transitionWithView(self.view,
duration: 0.5,
options: UIViewAnimationOptions.TransitionCrossDissolve,
animations: { () -> Void in
self.someButton.enabled = !self.someButton.enabled
}, completion:nil)

Animatable properties (through UIView beginAnimations:context:) are: frame, bounds, center, transform, alpha (from Apple docs).
So you've to determine what exactly your animation is (in terms of color/alpha/transform animations) and create manual animation (maybe you'll have to use CAAnimation instead of UIView beginAnimations:context:)

You can break down the enable/disable of a button into a change in opacity between two overlapping images each in one state or the other (i.e. make it look like a fade-in/fade-out). In the animation completion handler you can to do the actual enable/disable toggle.

Here's an idea :)
Within your animation block, Remove the button from view and add it again with disabled state. You can specify what kinda animation you want here..

Set: self.buttonSetEvent.customView.alpha = 0.2;
and try this
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:context];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.15];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:2];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
self.buttonSetEvent.customView.alpha = 1;
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView commitAnimations];

Related

Touch issue during UIView Animation

I am animating UIView when user touches on custom dropdown to show picker View from bottom side.UIView contains Pickerview...so when I change it's frame to move upwards.I get what I want, but pickerView doesn't recognize touch !(see screenshot below)
code is like this
CGRect pickerFrame=self.pickerSheet.frame;
CGRect viewFrame=self.view.frame;
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:SHEET_ANIMATION_DURATION];
//change Frame of View containing UIPickerView
pickerFrame.origin.y=202+animatedDistance;
viewFrame.origin.y-=animatedDistance;//animated distance is value by which view needs to move upward.
[self.pickerSheet setFrame:pickerFrame];
[self.view setFrame:viewFrame];
[UIView commitAnimations];
screenshot
first of all, ++please**, stop using this animation declaration, and bedin use new, block animation:
[UIView animateWithDuration:SHEET_ANIMATION_DURATION
delay:0
options:nil
animations:^{
pickerFrame.origin.y=202+animatedDistance;
viewFrame.origin.y-=animatedDistance;
}
completion:^(BOO f){
//any actions after animation ended
}];
Second, I think your problem is somewhere else. May by, you implementing your touches or picker wrong.
Please start using the new , better animation block , but I think there is something missing in your code , you need to put the code below :
UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction
Put this code in options in the new animation block , or find a way to put it in the old animation block

How to hide an UI Element slowly

I have a subView that I want to toggle between hidden and not hidden by a button. How do I fade in the subview and fade it out? For now it just appears immediately and disappear immediately when I toggle the button.
I am wondering what is the easiest way to do this animation.
Thanks
On iOS 4.0+ Apple recommends you use their new, block-based animation methods. Using these, the code would look something like this:
[UIView animateWithDuration:2.0
animations:^{myView.alpha = 0.0;}];
The properties you are animating go inside the block (the ^{...} part). Blocks are sort of like functions, so you can put multiple lines of code inside of them, if you want to animate multiple properties. For example:
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.2
animations:^{
view.alpha = 0.0;
view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}];
If you need to perform an action after the animation is complete, use the +animateWithDuration:animations:completion: method (which also uses blocks), for example:
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.2
animations:^{view.alpha = 0.0;}
completion:^(BOOL finished){ [view removeFromSuperview]; }];
For more info, check out the UIView Class Reference 'Animations' section and 'Animating Views with Blocks' section.
This is the old pre-4.0 way:
http://objcolumnist.com/2009/07/18/simple-uiview-based-animations-on-the-iphone/
... which has the advantage of being conceptually simple and easy to implement.
float alpha = 1.0; // or 0.0 if it's already visible and you want to fade out
[UIView beginAnimations:#"" context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:2.0]; // seconds, not ms. guess how i know?
[mySubView setAlpha:alpha];
[UIView commitAnimations];

Switching View within a ViewController

I am building an app that requires me to switch amongst 5 views and all of them are in a single view controller class. I am able to switch them using addSubview and removeFromSuperview methods, but the problem is that I want to animate it with the current view moves out to left and the next view comes in from right.
I tried using this thread but was not able to get the desired result.
Any form of help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
You can use this
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.5];
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(xOffSet, yoffSet);
myView.transform = transform;
[UIView commitAnimations];
Hope this Helps....
you can use the following to animate views:
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.8f animations:
^{
// and of course you can edit the duration according to your need
// Change Alpha value of the view or set it to hidden
// you can also change the frame; which will make the view change it position with animation to the new provided frame.
}
completion: ^(BOOL finished)
{
// Your Code here; if you want to add other animation on the end of the proccess.
}
};

UiView Transition inside UIView

this feels like a beginner question, but since I am not able to get it working in the intended-fashion, I am hoping somewhere out there is able to point me in the right direction.
What I am trying to achive is a transition of a view inside a view.
I fundamentally want to replace a view inside a view with another view(controller?!?) 's content.
lets say, I have an image of a book and I want to do a transition inside the book to another page (going from the calendar-view to the detailed daily view for example). I only want the "book-content"(white content area) to be included in that transition, and not the whole book itself(whole screen).
I can do a transition with the same view, no problem, but I dont get it working trying to replace the view with a completly different view.
It didnt matter having the views in seperate viewcontrollers, or all the views in one viewcontroller, so I were not able to get it working yet, but even worse, I am running out of ideas.
So HELP! If please somebody out there could be so kind and tell me what I am doing wrong.
Suggestions also very much appreciated.
Thanks!!
Tom
Maybe you could hide one view then show the other using a UIView Animations block.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft forView:view1.view cache:YES];
[UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft forView:view2.view cache:YES];
[UIView setAnimationDuration: 1.5];
[UIView commitAnimations];
view1.view.hidden = YES;
view2.view.hidden = NO;
Edit: Is this what you were looking for?
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.5];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
[UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:self.view cache:YES];
[view1 viewWillDisappear:YES];
[view2 viewWillAppear:YES];
view1.view.hidden = YES;
view2.view.hidden = NO;
[view1 viewDidDisappear:YES];
[view2 viewDidAppear:YES];
[UIView commitAnimations];
Or, you could use something like this:
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
delay:0.0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
animations:^{
[view1 removeFromSuperview];
[mySuperview addSubview:view2];
}
completion:nil];
Check out the exchangeSubviewsAtIndex: method in the UIView class. Just set up the 2 views that you want to transition from and to as subviews of another view; then call this method on that parent view.
Suppose you have a view controller with two views, A and B. They have identical frames so they occupy the same space in the controller's view, for your purposes displaying a page of a book. You want to display one and transition to the other.
One way would be to set the alpha property of one to 1.0 (opaque) and the other to 0.0 (transparent). Because this property can be animated you could do a fade from one to the other using a beginAnimations:context/commitAnimations, or use one of the block methods like the docs advise.
Another way would be to animate a change in frame in the two views. Set up the views so that one has a frame such that it is in the right place to display, the other has the same frame but with frame.origin.x equal to frame.size.width - it will be hidden because it is off-screen or hidden behind some other view. Animate the frame in by setting view A's frame.origin.x to -frame.size.width and frame B's frame.origin.x to the display position x origin. Then set (no animation) frame A's frame.origin.x to frame.origin.width again, update its content and you are ready to slide another page in from the right.

Moving an object without animating it in an animation block

I'm animating a bunch of buttons so they move to the left of the screen then they should magically move to the right of the screen. I do this by calling:
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.20 target:self selector:#selector(moveTheButtons) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
in viewDidLoad.
They animate quite happily to the left, but then they animate back to the right. I just want them to disappear and reappear to the right-off-screen. Because I'm new I assumed that since it was after the commitAnimations call that it wouldn't animate. I think the problem is that the animations actually 'commit' after the moveTheButtons function returns, but I can't think of an elegant (or standard) way around this.
How do I move the UIButton off screen without animating it, preferably still in the moveTheButtons function?
As you can probably infer, I'm new to animations on the iPhone, so if you see any other mistakes I'm making feel free to give me some pointers.
-(void)moveTheButtons{
NSLog(#"moveTheButtons");
[UIView beginAnimations:#"mov-ey" context:cloudA];
[UIView setAnimationDuration: .20];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear];
cloudA.center = CGPointMake(cloudA.center.x-pos.x,cloudA.center.y);
[UIView commitAnimations];
if(cloudA.center.x < -100){
//I don't want to animate this bit.
cloudA.center = CGPointMake(550,cloudA.center.y);
}
//NSLog(#"cloudA.center.x %f", cloudA.center.x);
}
You can temporarily turn off the implicit animations of properties within an animation block using the +[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:] method. This can be very useful in many use cases.
Do something like this:
-(void)moveTheButtons {
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration: .20];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear];
CGPoint center = CGPointMake(cloudA.center.x - pos.x, cloudA.center.y);
if (center.x < -100) {
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
cloudA.center = CGPointMake(550, center.y);
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];
} else {
cloudA.center = center;
}
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
As a side note; there is no need to give the animation a name, or a context, unless you actually use a delegate that responds to delegate methods. Just pass nil, and NULL as I have done in this example.
Precalculate the point , invert the order and return before animating the block.
You are unconditionally committing an animation to the engine in all cases.
-(void)moveTheButtons{
NSLog(#"moveTheButtons");
CGPoint mypoint = CGPointMake(cloudA.center.x-pos.x,cloudA.center.y);
if(cloudA.center.x < -100){
//I don't want to animate this bit.
cloudA.center = CGPointMake(550,cloudA.center.y);
return;
}
[UIView beginAnimations:#"mov-ey" context:cloudA];
[UIView setAnimationDuration: .20];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear];
cloudA.center = mypoint;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
Theres a style point about using a return rather than if/else but you can form your own opinion.
Cheers