Re: saving ICOs

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Son, 2003-06-29 um 19.39 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> > Thanks for the pointer. So it is possible to create RGBA cursors on
> > Windows without loading them from a file, nice. But is the same true for
> > animated cursors ? I've only found LoadCursorFromFile for that so we
> > will still need to be able to save .ANI files (and thus ICO embedded in
> > them) for animated cursors. 
> 
> I sort of hate to bring it up at this point (though better now than
> later). But perhaps we should just skip gdk_cursor_new_from_pixbufs()?
> 
>  - It's not supported for classic X cursors

I don't see how this is relevant, considering that RGBA is also
not supported for classic X cursors.

>  - It will require a hideous hack on windows

Well, using a temp file is certainly not very nice, but "hideous" ?
Several gdk-pixbuf loaders currently use temp files when loading
images... admittedly, we would have to add gdk_pixbuf_animation_save().

If you consider this too ugly, we can always take the cheap route of

gboolean
gdk_cursor_supports_animation(GdkDisplay *display)
{
  return FALSE;
}

on Windows.

Matthias