Re: GnomeAnimator widget

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Maybe it would be appropriate to have a library that sat on top of imlib
that was responsible for reading an animated image file (animated gifs,
mngs, etc) and outputing a list of GdkImlibImage structures (or something 
similar). I don't think tieing the GtkAnimator to one image format would
be a good idea.


James Henstridge.

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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Eckehard Berns wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 12:01:32AM +0200, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > I am not into the details of the GNOME libs very much yet, but,
> > besides using `GnomeStockPixmap's, shouldn't there be also a
> > `GnomeStockAnimator' widget so that we can have stock animations too?
> > (This question just comes from a very quick look at the code.)
> 
> Yes, there should be stock animations. But we don't need a new widget for
> this. The only reason why stock pixmaps use a separate widget is that there is
> additional functionality behind those pixmaps (e.g. they get grayed out when
> disabled). Maybe we should talk about how the stock animations would be
> implemented. We could store those animations somewhere on the disk to load
> them on demand or we could store them directly in libgnomeui.so to share the
> memory between apps (like it is done with stock pixmaps right now).
> 
> This doesn't affect the GnomeAnimator API though, so I didn't mention it :-)
> 
> >     Eckehard> And it might be handy to load a complete animation from
> >     Eckehard> an animated GIF.
> > 
> > Sure.  But Imlib does not provide this yet AFAIK (somebody please
> > correct me if I am wrong).  If Raster gives me the permission to do so
> > I could give it a shot.  :-)
> 
> I don't know if this would go into Imlib. Animated GIFs are quite special.
> Maybe this should be implemented in the GnomeAnimator widget.
> 
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> Eckehard Berns
> 
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