The joy of animated GIF

[Rob Cozens]

>how does icon animation compare to gif or "external image files" 
>approaches with respect to "chewing up large amounts of RAM"?

Sorry erik,

I don't have enough experience to give you an authoritative answer. 
The crux of the issue is all images in an animated gif are loaded in 
RAM when the gif is displayed; so the number & size of the frames in 
the gif determine the RAM hit, whereas individual external images 
need only exist in RAM when actually displayed.
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Rob Cozens
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