Re: Animator widget

[Matt Aubury <matt ookypooky com>]

We're not porting (yet!) so we need to have something that's going to
be forwards compatible. Clearly this isn't going to be GnomeAnimator
if it gets dropped from libcompat.

Cheers,
Matt


On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Cody Russell wrote:
> GtkImage does animation in GTK 2.0.  So if you're porting to 2.0, it's
> very little effort at all to change your code from GnomeAnimator to
> GtkImage.
> 
> On 26 Jun 2001 16:36:23 +0100, Matt Aubury wrote:
> > Erm... Galeon uses it too. What's the recommended replacement that is
> > valid for both GNOME 1.4 and GNOME 2.0 platforms? Some people have
> > mentioned GtkImage but this doesn't support animation (in GTK+
> > 1.2.x). GdkPixbuf can load animations but then I need to render them
> > into other widgets to display them.
> > 
> > Are we all meant to have our own hacks built like this?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Matt
> > 
> > PS. [ it does seem a bit daft removing widgets required for backwards
> >       compatiblity from a library whose purpose is precisely that!
> >       Although getting rid of GnomeAnimator and the imlib dependency
> >       will be a nice thing to do. ]