Re: [Vala] Showing animated gif files.

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

On 09/04/2009 02:33 PM, Arkadi Viner wrote:
> Hi.
> I want to show some animation to the user while my program is busy getting
> some information from the internet.
> I have an animated file which is - "*.gif" type and I want to use it.
> Is there any library to handle animated gif files that I can use?
> Thanks.
>
>    

I assume you use GTK+ to build UI, right? Then it's very simple.

var anim = new Gdk.PixbufAnimation.from_file (filename);
var image = new Gtk.Image.from_animation (anim);

Good luck with your program :)