On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> So it seems like you could just set the cursor to the image id of >> your choosing, and increment it in a repeat loop, just like 'set >> cursor to busy'. Not tested: >> >> put 67890,67891,67892,67893,67894,67895,67896,67897 into tAnimCursor >> repeat with i = 1 to 100 >> put item i wrap (the number of items in tAnimCursor) of tAnimCursor >> into tCurrentCursor >> set the cursor to tCurrentCursor >> wait 10 >> end repeat >> >> Seems like this ought to work. > > Well, OK, but I went ahead and used the http://ajaxload.info/ site to > download a great animated GIF cursor. So what do I do with that to > extract the individual images and list them separately in a loop? It > does seem that setting a cursor to an animated GIF ought to work out > of the box the way setting a button icon to an animated GIF does.... > But if there's a workaround for cursors I'd settle for that for now.
If you open an animated GIF in Preview on OS X it should show each frame separately. You could save each frame separately, then import them all into rev, give them consecutive IDs and use a routine similar to the one above (or the one Richard G. posted) and it ought to work. Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
