animations ios objective-c

Question

I have a global variable p. I have a function that draws (or redraws) my complex UIView objects depending on the value of this global variable. When I increase p my uiview objects needs to be redrawed. I need this be done using animation.

double pInitialValue=0.5;
double pNewValue=1.0;

//somewhere before animation we must call [self redraw] to draw our view with p=pInitialValue;

//then, when we call animate function.
//we change p to pNewValue
//and every step must be redrawed using [self redraw]

p=pNewValue; //using animation p must slowly grow from pInitialValue to pNewValue
[self redraw]; //and ofcourse user must see every step of animation so we need to call redraw function

for example I need an animation with duration 4. That means that during this 4 seconds my p must grow from pInitialValue to pNewValue and in every step my redraw function must be called

Help me, please. How can it be done?

Answer 1

You can use a timer to increase your p value. Do that like this: have an instance variable in your class defined like

NSTimer *timer;

After that just before you want your animation to happen do:

CGFloat timerInterval = 1 / 30; // This means 30 frames per second. Change this as you want.
timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:timerInterval target:self selector:@selector(increaseP) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

Than have a method called increaseP like this:

- (void)increaseP
{
    if (p < maxPValue) {
        // Increase p here and redraw your things
    }
    else {
        [timer invalidate];
    }
}

Let me know if you have any question and if this works for you.