One Quickie

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Resizing a window with animation and cool cross-fade effect with views (NSWindow->General)

NSViewAnimation lets you resize a window and cross-fade some views in one operation. (note I've had problems with the window size getting a couple of pixels off using this. Hopefully either I'm doing something dumb, or Apple fixes a bug). This code resizes the window, and changes the view that lives inside of a box. This is like how the Pages inspector works (except Pages doesn't do the gratuitous animation effect)

    NSRect newWindowFrame = ... the new window size;

    NSDictionary *windowResize;
    windowResize = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                 window, NSViewAnimationTargetKey,
                                 [NSValue valueWithRect: newWindowFrame],
                                 NSViewAnimationEndFrameKey,
                                 nil];

    NSDictionary *oldFadeOut = nil;
    if (oldView != nil) {
        oldFadeOut = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                   oldView, NSViewAnimationTargetKey,
                                   NSViewAnimationFadeOutEffect,
                                   NSViewAnimationEffectKey, nil];
    }

    NSDictionary *newFadeIn;
    newFadeIn = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                  newView, NSViewAnimationTargetKey,
                              NSViewAnimationFadeInEffect,
                              NSViewAnimationEffectKey, nil];

    NSArray *animations;
    animations = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                              windowResize, newFadeIn, oldFadeOut, nil];

    NSViewAnimation *animation;
    animation = [[NSViewAnimation alloc]
                    initWithViewAnimations: animations];

    [animation setAnimationBlockingMode: NSAnimationBlocking];
    [animation setDuration: 0.5]; // or however long you want it for

    [animation startAnimation]; // because it's blocking, once it returns, we're done

    [animation release];