Threaded anim GIFs?

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Richard Gaskin  wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that animated GIFs only animate while the engine is idle 
>> --
>> anyone know a trick to get them to continue animating while the engine
>> is busy with a script?
>>
>> I'd like to use an anim GIF as part of a progress dialog, but I 
>> imagine
>> the engine could do a more efficient job than my scripts of changing
>> frames if there was a built-in capability of doing so without having 
>> to
>> explicitely tell it each time.
>
> Try placing a few "wait 2 milliseconds with messages" lines in your
> processing script.  It may slow down your script a few milliseconds 
> but this
> is the only way I could find to get an animated GIF to run.

I ran into this problem recently while trying to use an animated gif to 
show status of loading/saving QT movies.  The animation just pauses 
during parts of these operations.

I just filed a feature request for animated gifs that animated 
independent of whatever else was happening in the engine.

<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2866>



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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com