Animated mask for UIViews?

2010-09-21 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
I have a SWF that was created where masks are being animated. Now I was asked to do the same thing for an iPhone application. Can one easily apply a mask to a UIView and animate it's dimensions? I have about 6 UIViews that stack on top of each other (staggered), and hopefully masks might be used

Re: Animated mask for UIViews?

2010-09-21 Thread Alexander Spohr
What kind of masks? Bitmaps? Then use UIImageView and transparency. Vectors? UIBezierPath and CGBlendMode might help. atze Am 21.09.2010 um 17:22 schrieb Eric E. Dolecki: I have a SWF that was created where masks are being animated. Now I was asked to do the same thing for an iPhone

Re: Animated mask for UIViews?

2010-09-21 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
square masks that i'd animate - squish, elongate, etc. 6 masks - 1 per UIView. Google Voice: (508) 656-0622 Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Alexander Spohr a...@freeport.de wrote: What kind of

Re: Animated mask for UIViews?

2010-09-21 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:22:06 -0400, Eric E. Dolecki edole...@gmail.com said: Can one easily apply a mask to a UIView and animate it's dimensions? One can easily apply a mask to a layer, and since all drawing (even a view's drawing) is actually a layer, that's the same thing. And one can animate