I have been searching around, but there seems no good answer for this simple question. So I am asking again: how to animate line-drawing in iphone dev?
Basically what I want is something like this:
@implementation MyUIView
- (void) triggerLineDrawing: (CGPathRef) path {
...
// animate line drawing here
// and the line should disappear automatically after a few seconds
}
Can it be done?
You can't do it automatically, only bu hand. To do it manually you should do something like this:
- create array of your line points.
- start an NSTimer, that will fire for example, 15 times a second.
- every tick of a timer you have to find out, what part of the line you need to draw (look at linear interpolation)
- update path that you draw (only with needed points + one last point that moves)
- send setNeedsDraw message to view.
You can vary interpolation algorythm, speed of line drawing etc. to get the effect that you need.