I have a CABasicAnimation moving a NSHostingView (it's a scrolling marquee text). When the user get his mouse cursor over the view, the animation must stops and it can interact with the view.

I tried the following approaches:

Method 1:
As recommended by Apple documentation (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreAnimation_guide/AdvancedAnimationTricks/AdvancedAnimationTricks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004514-CH8-SW14), I tried to implement the pause/resume method using the convertTime / speed = 0.
It works, the animation is paused and resumed, but while the animation is paused, the coordinates of the user clic inside the view are the one of the model layer and not the one of the presentation layer. So the click respond to where the user would have click if their was no animation.

Method 2:
I tried the various animation flags on my CABasicAnimation as follow :

let animation = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "position");
animation.duration = 10
animation.fromValue = [0, self.frame.origin.y]
animation.toValue = [-500, self.frame.origin.y]
animation.isCumulative = true
animation.isRemovedOnCompletion = false
animation.fillMode = .forwards

Not matter what I use, when the animation is removed, the view get back to it's original position (it jumps back to it's original position).

Method 3:
I tried to save the current animation value before removing by reading the presentation layer position as follow:

print("before")
let currentPosition = layer.presentation()?.position
print("after")

But this method never returns! (ie. "after" is never printed). Could it be a bug or something?

I'm out of idea now. If anyone has a suggestion, it would help a lot. Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

Accessing layer?.presentation()?.position doesn't work because animation.fromValue and animation.toValue should be CGPoint values:

animation.fromValue = CGPoint(x: 0, y: self.frame.origin.y)
animation.toValue = CGPoint(x: -500, y: self.frame.origin.y)

Then Method 3 works just fine.