Contents

Introduction to Animation Programming Guide for Cocoa

Describes how to use Cocoa animation objects to enhance user interface transitions.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

Using an NSAnimation Object describes the basic features of animation objects and how you customize them.

Animating Views and Windows describes the use of view animation objects, which provide a high-level interface for smoothly resizing, repositioning, and changing the opacity of view and window objects.

See Also

Sample code is available that provides examples for using the Cocoa animation classes:

Reducer implements a reusable collapsible view (using NSViewAnimation ) and an animated tab view class subclass of NSAnimation .

iSpend implements an expanding view using NSViewAnimation .

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