[ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

[Joel Guillod]

Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif !

I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif  
are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a  
script. This is in fact the reason of your new 'chasing arrows' to  
show the user that a process is currently running and he should be  
patient.

My solution up to now:
1.- open the animated gif in GraphicConverter
2.- save it as a Quicktime Movie,
3.- add a Player named "MyAnim" onto your card
4.- in message box type :
        set the filename of player "MyAnim" to theQuicktimeMovieFilePath
        set the looping of player "MyAnim" to true
5.- then a script sample during which the animation is displayed:

   on doSomeLongProcess
       show player "MyAnim"
       start player "MyAnim"
       here you have some long process to run -- <-- change as needed...
       stop player "MyAnim"
       hide player "MyAnim"
   end doSomeLongProcess

6.- Of course the animation is not displayed if you set the  
lockscreen to true in your script.

Enjoy and tell me if there is a direct solution with animated gif.

Joel G