Series of animations

View animations

We saw a series of view animations written as deeply nested blocks here; search for the word “Nested”. The following app unnests the blocks in a very civilized way. You can see 12 of them all in a row in the blocksFrom: method of class View.

I would have preferred to create an array of blocks in the initWithFrame: method of class View, and to execute these block in drawRect: or in a method called from drawRect:. But the app crashed when the blocks mentioned animatee or any other instance variable of class View. As far as I can tell now, a block that mentions an instance variable must be created in the method in which the block is called. In fact, it must be created in the call to the method in which the block is called.

The data type AnimationBlock is a reference to a block.

Source code in Nest.zip

  1. main.m
  2. Class NestAppDelegate
  3. Class View

Layer animations