Sorry, but I've gotta ask but what the heck are people still using
animated GIFs for?
That statement sucks. You know there are people that still have 56k and no cell phones to. Know anything about accessibility? Doug > Hey man, you did it, they didn't. You learned it and they didn't. It's all your gain. It's like getting made fun of for reading the dictionary which by the way I have. ;-) Peace, Mike On 1/19/07, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
oh, I know, I know. That rotating earth is what comes up in the wikipedia article for "animated gif". I just saw a few people ask about it and then decided it would be a fun challenge. So now I have the incredibly useful knowledge about the byte order or an animated gif file. Brendan Meutzner wrote: Sorry, but I've gotta ask but what the heck are people still using animated GIFs for? I kinda thought it was so "yesterday"...? You know, the waving flag, the (sorry Doug... I saw your demo) rotating earth, etc... Brendan On 1/18/07, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I musta read like 3 C classes that convert GIF's to SWF's only to > realize I'd have to take years to learn C JUST to get Flash Player to > support this in converting the C to AS3... and now you've coded it, > HOT!!!!!!! > > > On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:20 PM, dougmccune wrote: > > [I apologize if this is a double post, had a timeout when I first > tried posting.] > > I just released a new commercial component for Flex that loads and > plays animated GIFs. This has been brought up a few times here on > flexcoders and flexcomponents. Now there's no need to hack together > some weird IFrame solution, or figure out how to do the server-side > conversion of all your GIFs. You can try the demo version for free and > the commercial version is $50. > > Here's the description I posted on Flex Exchange: > > The AnimatedGifLoader loads and plays animated GIF files. This > component adds support for animated GIFs, a feature that has been > lacking from Flex. > > This works just like the SWFLoader component from the Flex Framework. > Use it inline in your MXML code or by using Actionscript. This > component supports everything the SWFLoader component does, with a few > additions. > > New methods: play(), pause() > New properties: autoPlay, playing, currentFrame, delay > > Test it out with your own animated GIFs to see how it works by > clicking on the sample URL. > > I've written up the full details on my blog. There are some examples > and you can even test out any GIF you want by uploading it and seeing > it loaded by the component instantly: > http://dougmccune.com/blog/ 2007/01/17/animatedgifloader/<http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/17/animatedgifloader/> > > Here's the Flex Exchange posting: > http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/ exchange/index.cfm?view=sn610# view=sn611& > viewName=Flex%20Extension &loc=en_us&authorid=61303741& page=0&scrollPos > =0&subcatid=0&snid=sn611& itemnumber=0&extid=1103970& catid=0<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn610#view=sn611&viewName=Flex%20Extension&loc=en_us&authorid=61303741&page=0&scrollPos=0&subcatid=0&snid=sn611&itemnumber=0&extid=1103970&catid=0> > > Feedback is always appreciated! > > Thanks, > Doug McCune > > >
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