As I revisited this, I remembered that my problem with ImageMagick was with threads, not Win32::GUI (ImageMagick doesn't seem to work at all with threads).
I've been playing with this, and ImageMagick can read animated gif's. I haven't figured out how to get individual frames from the animation. All I can get is the first frame... I've never played with PAR, so I can't help there... Brian Millham This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! Creator of the DW6000 Monitor http://www.millham.net/dw6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Linderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:03 PM To: Brian Millham; perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs? Hi Brian, I have several application successfully using ImageMagick and Win32::GUI -- but I'm not using animated .gif files, or attempting to display them, so I won't be much help in that regard. On the other hand, my problem with ImageMagick these days is that even the bribes version, which used to be easily usable with PAR, no longer is. But I'm pretty sure that is a PAR problem, not ImageMagick or Win32::GUI. On approximately 9/25/2006 4:59 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Brian Millham: > A note on ImageMagick, I've had problems getting it to work properly with > Win32::GUI. There appears to be a namespace problem, but I haven't really > looked into it much. I am currently working on a project that I may need > ImageMagick, so if I find anything out about the problem, I'll post it here > (I'll also check if it supports animated GIFs) > > Brian Millham > This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! > Creator of the DW6000 Monitor > http://www.millham.net/dw6000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Robert May > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:27 PM > To: Steve Loughran > Cc: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs? > > Steve Loughran wrote: > >> Well, my attempts at loading in animated/multi-page GIFs has come to a >> > stop. > >> Image:ParseGIF seems to create "invalid gifs" (but its last update was >> 1999 apparently!), DIBitmap doesnt handle them at all (due to it using >> an earlier version of FreeImage), Imager::Files only supports native M$ >> file formats on win32 (and the extra libraries it requires to support >> GIFs are a right pain to get running on win32... if it will work at >> all), and GD can create animated GIFs but has no mention anywhere of how >> to load them. >> >> So I am stuck. Does anyone have any pointers to any perl code/modules >> that will help me load animated/multi-page GIFs and extract the >> individual images? >> > > > It's many years since I played with ImageMagick, but it may do what you > need. Find info about the Perl wrapper at > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php > > I can see version 6.2.8 of Image::Magick in ActiveState's ppm repository. > > I can't immediately see anything that says it reads animated GIFs, but > would be surprised if it doesn't. > > Rob. > -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0639-1, 09/25/2006 Tested on: 9/25/2006 10:21:46 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
