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Animate a UIView out of thin air

Today, I was trying to animate a menu-like view so that it slides out of a bar of buttons at the bottom of my application. Easy enough, I read some documentation about animations here. And I end up with code similar to this in the controller responsible for the sliding view:

CGRect frame = self.view.frame;
// make sure the view initially sits outside the screen
frame.origin.y = 480;
self.view.frame = frame;

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1];
frame.origin.y = referenceFrame.origin.y - frame.size.height;
self.view.frame = frame;
[UIView commitAnimations];

CGRect frame = self.view.frame;

// make sure the view initially sits outside the screen

frame.origin.y = 480;

self.view.frame = frame;

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];

[UIView setAnimationDuration:1];

frame.origin.y = referenceFrame.origin.y - frame.size.height;

self.view.frame = frame;

[UIView commitAnimations];

Nothing spectacular. I […]

Transparent background UISearchView

While I was working on a small iPhone application I was required to put a search box but with a transparent background. The original design looks like this: I could not get the basic search control to not display its background. I tried using a standard text box, however the look and feel was not […]

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