Being able to load animated gifs could be very promising if you want to be able to load and display animated gif banner ads in your Flex app, without relying on JS/IFrame stuff. This component takes you one step closer (granted, there are other issues left to take care of).
Kevin N. 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] > <mailto:[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 >
