How to parametrize UIView animation? - objective-c

Question

I have lot of such case statements which would fire various UIView animations. I would like to write a module and parametrize these so I don't have to repeat similar code over and over. What is the best way to pass (parametrized) values for animationRepeatCount & animationDuration?
case 10: //Animation Number 10
//.........
imageAnimation2.animationImages = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[UIImage imageNamed:#"monkey_dancing_01.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"monkey_dancing_02.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"monkey_dancing_03.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"monkey_dancing_04.png"],
nil];
imageAnimation2.animationRepeatCount = 4;
imageAnimation2.animationDuration = 2;
[imageAnimation2 startAnimating];
[self loadSoundEffectAudio:#"Monkey_10"];
[self performSelector:#selector(stopSoundEffectAudio) withObject:nil afterDelay:4];
break;

Answer 1

Depending on how regular your assets and animations are, you could make some utility methods to handle much of that.
Like say:
+ (void) loadAnimation:(UIImageView *)imageView name:(NSString *)filename
{
NSMutableArray * array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
UIImage * image;
int index = 1;
NSString * string;
do
{
string = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#%04d.png", filename, index++];
image = [UIImage imageNamed:string];
if(image)
[array addObject:image];
} while (image != nil);
imageView.animationImages = array;
imageView.animationDuration = [array count] / 18;
[array release];
}
The above code loads up animations into an array with very regular naming conventions (XXXX.png). They are also all based on the same framerate so I can build the duration at the same time.