Application graphics
Richmond Mathewson
richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 00:56:00 EST 2010
On 09/03/2010 00:51, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
>
>
>>>> I advise you to use PNG for everything. It has an alpha channel and it is
>>>> better than GIF.
>>>>
>> How about animations?
>>
> PNG may not be as convenient for animation as something like animated GIF,
> but you can create animations by showing PNGs sequentially in an image
> object (set the text of image "viewer" to the text of image
> "frame1.png"...), or by sequentially setting the icon of a button to the IDs
> of PNGs.
>
>
Well . . . you can do that with any format that RunRev can cope with,
although
it does seem terribly clunky, or, Heaven forfend that I should let the
phrase
pass out my gab: "terribly Hypercardy".
The advantage of this method is that it is easier to control things such
as animation
speed than with animated GIFs.
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