Coin Flip Animation?

[roberthuttinger]

I wrote some code for flipping a coin and I used 24 images to simulate the coin flipping 2 times then it shows a coin. heres the problem, I use a timer to call the updated image at an interval of 0.01 but the pp kept crashing at random times. I removed the 'animation' and now it seems stable.

is there a way to animate the coinflip that is jesusPhone friendly?

cheers.rob

[refreshe]

Put the images into an array, then have your UIImageView animate the array. It has functionality for that. You can set the animation duration etc.
Or is that what you already did and it was crashing?

[roberthuttinger]

put the images into an array, thanks Ill look around for that. Ive found tutorial on animations but they were variations on what I needed. any exmples you can thik of?

cheers.rob

[refreshe]

just off the top, i think it'd look something like this. you'll have to test it though :P

coin1, coin2, coin3 are UIImages.

       coin1 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin1" ofType:@"png"]];
       coin2 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin2" ofType:@"png"]];
       coin3 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin3" ofType:@"png"]];

	coinImageArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:coin1, coin2, coin3, nil];
	
	[coin1 release];
	[coin2 release];
	[coin3 release];

	[coinImageView setAnimationImages:coinImageArray];
	[coinImageView setAnimationRepeatCount:1];	//0 for looping
	[coinImageView setAnimationDuration:1.0];	//how long 1 cycle of animation lasts


       [coinImageView startAnimating];    // also stopAnimating

[roberthuttinger]

cheers ill try it and just for those who also see this, the top of the code was truncated:
coin1 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin1" ofType:@"png"]];
coin2 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin2" ofType:@"png"]];
coin3 = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"coin3" ofType:@"png"]];


cheers.rob

[refreshe]

cool, hope it works for you.
damn that code got chopped. i edited it back in.