On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Carlos Eduardo Mello wrote: > 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.
I don't know how well animator-based animation melds with layer-based animation, especially on Mac OS X where NSView and CALayer spend most of their time glowering at each other angrily over the fence. :) Things are different in iOS where the whole framework was built up from scratch and UIView and CALayer are integrated completely (a UIView is just a CALayer plus touches, as someone has said). But in general my view is: don't be afraid of Core Animation. It is not difficult and it puts the power directly into your hands. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, http://www.apeth.net/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Among the 2007 MacTech Top 25, http://tinyurl.com/2rh4pf Programming iOS 4! http://www.apeth.net/matt/default.html#iosbook RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
