Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-20 Thread Richmond
On 01/20/2013 03:49 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Richmond, do you have a modern OS X computer with plenty of memory? If so, I am very tempted to buy you a copy of Parallels. Virtually (pardon the pun) everything that only talks to Windows Drivers and not to the hardware directly will work in

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Richmond
On 01/18/2013 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html ~Roger It will be interesting to see if the Windows versions run under WINE 1.5.22.

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Richmond
On 01/18/2013 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html ~Roger Well Photoshop CS2 works OK under UbuntuStudio 12.10/WINE 1.5.21, although

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Here's an update to using the various methods of doing this. Alejandro: I couldn't get your method to work, the gif stayed at its original size. I think I did everything in your email Richmond: Online Image Editor, GifMagic, and gimp all worked fine. I also discovered by accident that

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Alejandro Tejada
setting the image's filename? H, this probably means that instead of being a feature, gif resizing was a bug... a bug corrected in one of the many updates of LiveCode. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Animated-gif-editor-tp4659068p4659180

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
a feature, gif resizing was a bug... a bug corrected in one of the many updates of LiveCode. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Animated-gif-editor-tp4659068p4659180.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Richmond, do you have a modern OS X computer with plenty of memory? If so, I am very tempted to buy you a copy of Parallels. Virtually (pardon the pun) everything that only talks to Windows Drivers and not to the hardware directly will work in Parallels. Bob On Jan 19, 2013, at 4:27 AM,

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread stephen barncard
Richmond should love this! These softwares are for XP and G4s and G5s, macOS 10.2.8 to 10.3.8 On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs.

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Haworth wrote: Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize an existing animated gif. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Haworth
And I was just about to download them! I know this topic comes up from time to time but is there any likelihood that LC will ever support animated gifs during blocking operations? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:31 AM, stephen barncard

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
If you only want it for a progress dialog, I built a standalone with an animated gif, and some commands and functions to respond to Applescript commands. With these I was able to show, hide, launch, quit, set the message and resize the dialog. The stack window was set to be a system window, so

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Haworth
I need Windows as well as Mac. Also, doesn't the Mac menu bar for the standalone show up? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com wrote: If you only want it for a progress dialog, I built a standalone with an animated gif,

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Bob's technique actually works well on Windows because stacks without titlebars don't show up in the task bar. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 1/18/13 11:20 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I need Windows as well as Mac. Also, doesn't the Mac menu

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Pete, Peter Haworth wrote Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize an existing animated gif. Did you know that you could resize an animated gif inside your stack? Here is the recipe: Originally posted on 23 Feb 2003 14:42:43 -0800 in the message thread

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/18/2013 12:57 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Only thing is, it shows up in the dock! It would be nice if there were some kind of option to prevent a standalone from appearing in the dock. Does this work?

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Even better, thanks Alejandro! Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Pete, Peter Haworth wrote Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize an existing animated gif. Did

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
Only if the app is activated via Applescript. There is a way to launch an app without it coming to the foreground. Since I use the system window property, it floats above my application, and I position it to the loc of the open stack, so it shows up in the middle of whatever stack opens it.

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
The trick is communicating with it in Windows. I use it as a general dialog, and wanted to build it into something more robust, with different animations, progress bars, messages, etc. I suppose that before calling it you can create a low level hidden text file with all the parameters, and then

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
That does work! Thanks. As an added bonus it also prevents the app from showing up when you command-tab, so a user cannot inadvertently quit it, but of course it also prevents ME from quitting it should something go wrong! So do all your testing with the app in the dock, and then switch it when

Animated gif editor

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize an existing animated gif. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-17 Thread Richmond
On 18/01/13 04:06, Peter Haworth wrote: Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize an existing animated gif. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please