NSPanel : double animation

Question

Hello,

I am trying to animate an NSPanel derived window with a fade-in while sliding (moving from outside to inside the screen) What is way to do a such animation?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Answer 1

I have never done this on my own. And while I think that sliding should be fairly enough, here's an attempt:

• You need a non-opaque window. Use setOpaque: and set it to NO
• The windows's content view should be layer-backed. Use setWantsLayer: and set to YES (at least during the animation).
• Then you can get the window's content view's layer: [[window contentView] layer]
• Animate the layers opacity using CoreAnimation techniques alongside the window's frame

Answer 2

NSViewAnimation can do both at once, and it works on windows, not just views.