Re: Deconstructing animations

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Son, 2003-06-29 um 19.31 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 13:16, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > The gdk-pixbuf animation api is nicely abstract and relieves
> > applications from the need to deal with frames themselves. 
> > 
> > What is not so nice is that this abstract interface is the only one
> > offered, so that it is not even possible to work on a frame level inside
> > gtk+/gdk/gdk-pixbuf. 
> 
> The animated pixbuf API designed to be able to deal with non-frame-based
> animation formats like MNG. Do we want to give this up?
> 

No. All I want is a way to collect the sequence of pixbufs (and delays)
which I can get via a GdkPixbufAnimationIter, without running into
loops. I don't see how this would be giving up anything. Even mng
ultimatively results in a sequence of frames which are displayed one
after the other. 

Regards, Matthias