I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to do this. I have an exercise routine that's made up of 154 images (vector art), each lasting .5 seconds. If it's set as an animated gif or ppt slideshow, it's easy to follow along and looks right. Would the ppt plugin be the way to go, or should I create an animated gif an insert it into a html doc or should I turn it into a video? Also if viewed on an iphone it would work best in portrait, but if you were viewing on an ipad, you'd probably have it on landscape. Any advice?

iOS doesn't handle animated gif's properly. If you already have them in a series of still images (png or jpg, but preferably png), then you can use iOS's built in animation settings for imageViews: -(void)startAnimating { UIImage *img1 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image1.png"]; UIImage *img2 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image2.png"]; UIImage *img3 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image3.png"]; NSArray *animatedSplashArray = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:img1, img2, img3, nil]; CGFloat theDuration = (154 * .5); [theImgView setAnimationDuration:theDuration]; [theImgView setAnimationImages:animatedSplashArray]; [theImgView startAnimating]; [self performSelector:@selector(stopAnimation) withObject:nil afterDelay:theDuration]; } -(void)stopAnimation { [theImgView stopAnimating]; }

You could also set up a for() loop to add all 154 images with just a few lines of code, rather than typing each out individually.

Thanks Chris, yes, the images could be in a series, named image1.png, etc and I can sort of understand what your code is doing, but unfortunately I'm not nearly confident enough in xcode to know where and how to add this.

Maybe the answer is not in the technical aspects of a solution, but in the usability - the way this could be controlled by the user and what is intuitive. To me it sounds like it should be presented as a video (e.g. mp4). I'd use the AT53 player with that, with pause, stop etc controls to control it. Alan

ATrain's plugin would work fine if it was in video form. But if it's currently in image form, it would be easier to animate the images. You could also get creative and control the size of the image view. You could still add play, pause and stop buttons. Here's a simple example of how it might work in the BT_screen_blank.m plugin. Replace the entire "viewWillAppear" method with this: //view will appear -(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{ [super viewWillAppear:animated]; [BT_debugger showIt:self theMessage:@"viewWillAppear"]; //flag this as the current screen cctimecard_appDelegate *appDelegate = (cctimecard_appDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; appDelegate.rootApp.currentScreenData = self.screenData; //setup navigation bar and background [BT_viewUtilities configureBackgroundAndNavBar:self theScreenData:[self screenData]]; UIImageView *theImg = [[UIImageView alloc]init]; theImg.frame = self.view.frame; [self.view addSubview:theImg]; [self startAnimating:theImg]; } -(void)startAnimating: (UIImageView *)theImgView { UIImage *img1 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"img1.png"]; UIImage *img2 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"img2.png"]; UIImage *img3 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"img3.png"]; NSArray *animatedSplashArray = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:img1, img2, img3, nil]; CGFloat theDuration = ([animatedSplashArray count] * .5); [theImgView setAnimationDuration:theDuration]; [theImgView setAnimationImages:animatedSplashArray]; [theImgView startAnimating]; [self performSelector:@selector(stopAnimation:) withObject:theImgView afterDelay:theDuration]; } -(void)stopAnimation: (UIImageView *)theImgView { [theImgView stopAnimating]; }

Wow thanks. I could add stop/pause, but if you stopped or paused the exercise it wouldn't have the same health benefit. You need to sweat it out to the end, Ideally I'd want people to click one button to start - very simple. I do think animating the images may work best, some of the exercise positions last .5 seconds and others are simply holding a position for 10 seconds. For example in an animated gif running at .5 sec, it shows: image 1, the .5-second exercise position, once. And the next exercise (holding a position for 10 seconds) is an image that's duplicated 20 times (image2- image22) to create the 10 second view, etc. until 154 images are viewed.

It will be interesting to hear what solution you end up with. Cheers, Alan

I think I'm going to try Chris's BT_screen_blank.m plugin idea. I've never worked with the blank screen before.(I'm strictly Buzztouch with training wheels) thanks for your input, I was wondering about video too, but thought it might get too big - about 7 minutes.