Thanks Seth I appreciate the input and yes I think I can handle that!  I should 
have thought of that already... :-)  As a note...I wasn't actually using 
animator I was just reducing the alpha via a repeating timer since I liked the 
effect better but the end result was the same problem so I think this can take 
care of it.  Thanks again!



On Dec 17, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Seth Willits wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Rick C. wrote:
> 
>> ... So I had that working too until I realized in Leopard the view won't 
>> accept setAlphaValue unless I tick the box in IB for core animation.  So I 
>> did tick the box for window view and it worked but it broke a lot of 
>> subsequent UI functions/processing....
> 
> 
> Yeah, layer-backed views don't always work perfectly. What I would do instead 
> is just go old school and redraw the view's contents at varying alpha. It's 
> more work than using the animator on the view itself, but it'll work OK and 
> you won't have to start over completely. Off the top of my head I can't think 
> of a simpler solution.
> 
> 
> --
> Seth Willits
> 
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