Hi Matt,

thanks for the reply. I 'll definetly dig into that as soon as I am done with core GUI stuff (need to get my app working for a -prototype demo)...I was trying to add a quick touch of animation so that my demo would look cooler and just thought that it might be possible to do it with NSView calls without using layers, I mean, using the animator. I'll go through the Core Animation Guide to get a better handle on CALayer, etc.

Thank You again for your time.

On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:54:32 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Mello <carloseme...@gmail.com > said:
Just in case someone was following...

As I couldn't figure out a simple way to animate my view growing
while drawing (my drawing needs to be updated for each step of the
way, depending on the view's size...), as a workaround I hid the view
out of sight by embeding it in a dumb transparent view and animated it
comming into sight instead of growing into sight. The result was
actually pretty good (maybe even  better than the initial idea).


Your "growing-while-drawing" problem is simply a special case of wanting to animate your own custom property. If you define your own animatable property, then your drawLayer:inContext: is called at each "frame" of the animation, giving you a chance to redraw. So, you could change your frame plus a custom animatable property, and they will be animated together (and therefore you'll get to redraw the presentation layer on every frame) when the redraw moment arrives and the animation is actually performed. m.

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