sigh - need help with a silly transition

[noodles]

Hello all. I have postponed posting this question before I tried every single thing I could think of, but alas, here I am. I've been banging my head against the wall in a fit of rage for days.

I'm having an issue trying to do a simple FlipFromRight transition on a table view. What I'm trying to achieve is the effect you get when you're listening to music on the iPod and it displays the cover art, hit the button in the upper right and the cover art flips over to reveal the tracks. That's all I'm trying to do!!
The tableview isn't part of a Navigation view or anything, just a stand alone. I can get it to where the entire view on the screen flips to the correct thing, but not just the table itself.
I've reviewed all of the documentation from apple on transitions and animations, scoured the web for example code and I just can't seem to find _exactly_ the answer I'm searching for. Or maybe I'm over looking my answer in some kind of weird mental block? So I come to you oh great community of geniusness.

Any help is much appreciated.

Below is a code snippit..

	[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
	[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.35];
	[UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:coverArt cache:YES];
	[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
	
	[self.view addSubview:coverArt];
	[trackTableView removeFromSuperview];
	
	[UIView commitAnimations];

[Magic Hands]

You can try:

[UIView setAnimationTransition:([whatEverView superview] ? UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight : UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft) forView:coverArt cache:YES];

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Magic Hands

You can try:

[UIView setAnimationTransition:([whatEverView superview] ? UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight : UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft) forView:coverArt cache:YES];

Thank you for a quick response. Tried it, same result the tableview disappears and the image view just pops on, no animation.

[AEDave]

Two suggestions perhaps...

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context: nil];

And also try reversing your 'remove from superview' and 'add subview'... Usually I remove something before putting something in its place.

Not sure if any of those things will do the trick...

I do know that in the Beginning iPhone book, the authors use a function:

   [secondViewController viewWillAppear:YES];
   [currentViewController viewWillDisappear:YES];
   [currentViewController.view removeFromSuperview];
   [self.view insertSubview: self.secondViewController.view atIndex:0];
   [currentViewController viewDidDisappear:YES];
   [secondViewController viewDidAppear:YES];

I really haven't played around with these things much, but perhaps there's something in there worth noticing?

Cheers,

Dave

[noodles]

I really haven't played around with these things much, but perhaps there's something in there worth noticing?

Cheers,

Dave

Thanks for the suggestions Dave.. Unfortunately another thumbs down. Same result.

I was thinking about trying to create a separate view container make that the superview of the tableview and imageview and attempting to do an exchangeviews or something but I feel like it should work the way it's presently set up and I'm very afraid of putting my fist through the screen.

i hate computers (right now)

[chiparoo52]

Change this line from: [UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:coverArt cache:YES];

Change it to:[UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:self.view cache:YES];

[noodles]

Originally Posted by chiparoo52

Change this line from: [UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:coverArt cache:YES];

Change it to:[UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:self.view cache:YES];

Ya, that flips but it flips my entire view (which contains the tableview) instead of just flipping the table view, which is what I'm looking to do..

[chiparoo52]

My best solution would be to put the items you are trying to animate within another view inside your main view and just use that smaller view for the animation target. Another thing you could possibly do. If you don't want to go through the hassle of moving all your subviews into another parent view. Add the view to the screen first with setHidden:TRUE; and inside your animation make the setHidden:FALSE;

So something maybe like this:

[coverArt setHidden:TRUE];
[self.view addSubview:coverArt];

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.35];
[UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:coverArt cache:YES];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
[coverArt setHidden:FALSE];
[trackTableView removeFromSuperview];
[UIView commitAnimations];

not 100% sure, but something you can try.

[chiparoo52]

possibly try changing the forView:coverArt to forView:trackTableView that would be another thing to try.

[noodles]

FINALLY.

Okay, I was dreading it but yea, I had to just re-jigger some stuff in IB. I created a smaller view container and threw the table onto that and set the tag of the view.. then in my code I recalled the view right before the animation with the viewWithTag: guy. Here was my test code that worked:

	
	UIView *tempController = [UIView alloc];
	tempController = [self.view viewWithTag:150];
	
	[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
	[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.35];
	[UIView setAnimationTransition: UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:tempController cache:YES];
	
	[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];

	[trackTableView removeFromSuperview];	
	[tempController addSubview:coverArt];
	
	[UIView commitAnimations];

Thanks for all your quick responses and suggestions. This community is great and I've learned a whole lot here!

Cheers!