Question

Okay, so I want to make a menu that expands down at the current touch location. I achieve this by adding my menuView with a height of 1 and then changing the height to my desired one like this:

[UIView beginAnimations:NULL context:nil];          
CGRect fullRect;
fullRect = CGRectMake(menuView.frame.origin.x, menuView.frame.origin.y, 290, 180);
menuView.frame = fullRect;
[UIView commitAnimations];

Now the problem is that there are 4 buttons in this menuView and these buttons appear first and then the menuView expands down under them. Any ideas how to make the buttons appear with the menuView and not before it?

Answer 1

You have to set menuView.clipsToBounds = YES so the buttons are not shown outside the bounds of your menuView while it is expanding.

I would also add the following to have a fade-in effect for your buttons.

button1.alpha = 0.0; // Do this for each button before the [UIView beginAnimations];

button1.alpha = 1.0; // Do this during the animation block.