Weird Animation issue...

[Kenrik]

Ok so I had an animation that was working great on an infinite loop.

- (void)cloudAnimation
{
	[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
	[UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:1e100f];
	[UIView setAnimationDuration:30.0];
	[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
	[UIView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
	cloudView.center = CGPointMake (20, 300);
	[UIView commitAnimations];
}

It was called in my "initWithFram" like this

		[self cloudAnimation];

Well this was working perfect while the view that was my main (and only) view was what loaded first but I switched to have multiple views and this view is no longer the first view loaded by my LevelViewControler.

I Flip into the view with the animation like this:

UIImage *startButtonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"startButtonA.png"];
	CGRect buttonFrame = CGRectMake(startShiftRightA, startShiftDownA, startButtonImage.size.width, startButtonImage.size.height);
	startButton = [self buttonWithTitle:nil target:self.viewControllerB selector:@selector(flipGame:) frame:buttonFrame image:startButtonImage];

Well the animation does not run anymore..

But I tried to attach that animation to another of my UIviews and it instantly moved that UIview to where the end of the animation would be without actually animating (it would load in with the view already at the ending point of the animation)

What's up with this? this animation is on an infinite loop.. it should just run once called.

I'm confused as to why it's broken now when it was working before.

as a note: the rest of my animations are still working..

I know it's because I added more views and this got screwy.. I think my view is not getting initialized correctly.

HELP!

[Kenrik]

bumpity bump bump..

[Kenrik]

Ok well I figured out the "why" but I still don't know about the "how" to fix it.

MY project started with Apples "Bubble Level" sample and has grown into something much larger with custom classes and views.

Well the bubbleLevel has a XIB file that's setup for my games "levelView" and when I have the levelView as the first view that's loaded in my viewController everything works just fine.

if however I have my startScreen view set as my first view in my ViewController class and then flip over to the levelView the animations are broken. (I want the startScreen to be my initial view)

I think this is because the XIB is only setup for the levelView and not my new custom views.

I have not used IB at all in my project and really don't know how to use it (I like sticking with code only)

can someone please help me get the kinks out of this problem?

[smithdale87]

sometimes I find this helps:

[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(cloudAnimation) ... ];