HSAnimatedCalendar version 1.0

A UIViewController which display an animated calendar display

Created by Hans Sjunnesson ([email protected]). Copyright 2010 Hans Sjunnesson. All rights reserved.

What's this?

The HSAnimatedCalendarViewController is an iPhone UIViewController which uses timers to update the UIImageViews the controller references. These UIViews represent the component parts of a date and time, or the number of years, days, hours, and seconds left to a target date.

How do I set this up?

The HSAnimatedCalendarViewController will load its configuration from a plist-file with the same name as its nib-file. So for instance, a HSAnimatedCalendarViewController loaded from the file CountDown.xib will expect to load the file CountDown.plist as its configuration.

A proper configuration file looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Countdown</key>
    <true/>
    <key>CountdownDate</key>
    <date>2010-12-24T00:00:00Z</date>
    <key>transitionType</key>
    <string>fade</string>
    <key>transitionSubType</key>
    <string>right</string>
    <key>transitionDuration</key>
    <real>0.25</real>
</dict>
</plist>

If the key Countdown is set to true, the controller will display the number of years, months, days, hours and seconds to the date specified by the key CountdownDate. If the key Countdown isn't set, the controller will display the current date and time, and animate the view as time progresses.

The key transitionType dictates the type of CATransitions applied to the animated numbers. The allowed values are: fade, moveIn, push, and reveal. These are the standard CATransition types.

The transitionSubType dictates the subtype of the CATransition, of which the following are supported: right, left, top, and bottom

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.