Question

I am new to iphone development. I have an Image Array as follows.

NSArray *eyeFrames = [NSArray array];

eyeFrames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:
                 [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes1-open.png"],
                 [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes3-half.png"],
                 [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes2-empty.png"],
                 nil];

I have an ImageView as follows

IBOutlet UIImageView *eyesImage;

Now I want to assign this array of Images to my ImageView .

What i tried so far is as follows:

eyesImage.animationImages = eyeFrames;

But it doesn’t seem to provide the expected result.Can anyone tell me how to do it ?

Thanks,
Raj

Answer 1

For animating series of images like image slider following is the code:

NSArray *myImages = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                             [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes1-open.png"],
             [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes3-half.png"],
             [UIImage imageNamed:@"eyes2-empty.png"],                             
                             nil];

        eyesImage.animationImages = myImages;
        eyesImage.animationDuration = 0.9; // seconds
        eyesImage.animationRepeatCount = 1; // 0 = loops forever
        [eyesImage startAnimating];

        [UIView commitAnimations];

For accessing the file from array and set to Image view you have to do like this

IBOutlet UIImageView *eyesImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:(UIImage *) [eyeFrames objectAtIndex:1]];

Hope this helps…