Brian Millham wrote:
I've got a simple script that can display an animated gif.
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I think that it could be improved. It's a bit slow loading the gif, and it doesn't handle the missing information from some frames (changes from I-frames [in MPEG speak]) and it doesn't handle transparent backgrounds. Oh, and there's no error checking. I tried to add enough comments so everyone can understand what I did. If you make any improvements, please share them with the list (or at least with me) Would this be a good script to add as an example script with the Win32::GUI distribution?
Very nice. There's plenty of alternatives for displaying the image (e.g. drawing it directly into the DC), but this shows all the important steps. I have a policy (open for discussion, of course) of not distributing samples that require modules not distributed with ActiveState Perl or Win32::GUI itself, as I think the samples we distribute should run 'out of the box'.
This is, however, exactly the sort of sample that I'd like to see on the Wiki - http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/wiki/
Regards, Rob.
