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Re: sync drawing an ever-increasing path
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Re: sync drawing an ever-increasing path


  • Subject: Re: sync drawing an ever-increasing path
  • From: Roland King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:57:04 +0800

hmm .. actually it looks like I can TOTALLY use CALayer for this. I need a better book, the one I have doesn't cover this. Hitting google.


On 23 Oct, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:

> I want to animate the drawing of  CGPath in a UIView, so it looks as if it's being drawn. I have the UIView, I have the CGPath, I am able to split the CGPath at any point from 0 to 100% into that which should be drawn and that which shouldn't yet, that's all done, so I can, fairly efficiently, call -(CGPath)[ myObject fractionalPath:(CGFloat)fraction ] and get a path.
>
> The idea is to call setNeedsDisplay on the UIView from time to time, then figure out, when I get my -drawRect call how far through the animation I am, call fractionalPath: for that fraction of the total animation time, and draw it. The path isn't that complex, it doesn't take very long to draw and I'm compositing already-fully-drawn paths into a backing UIImage so there's only one 'live one' at any time.
>
> The bit I'm not sure about is how to sync this up with the natural framerate of the device. I could call setNeedsDisplay on a timer, or with a delay after each drawRect, but there is surely a better way to do this, is there not? If I do call setNeedsDisplay a lot, will I only get drawRect at most at the natural framerate of the device.
>
> Is there an obvious technology I'm missing? This is a pretty simple way to do a quick animation of a single path, so OpenGL or anything like that is massive overkill and I didn't see anything CALayer would give me which would help, but wondered if I'd missed something there as that does have the concept of animating a property, even a custom one, between two values and I wondered if I could hook into that.
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