Hi all, I've had some fun looking at the PascalMagick units which Felipe et. all did - and I must admit to being quite impressed. This however brings up immediately the question (for me at least) - how hard would it be to create a loader component similiar to Imaging4Lazarus which can load images supported by magick into TPicture ? That would immediately expand the list of available image formats to supported Lazarus apps by a very large amount. The second question I know has been asked before (but I am not aware of any consensus on it) and it may not be related - how can one go about adding supported for animated image formats (in particular gif and mng) to Lazarus ? Through a TPicture extension ? A completely sepperate component with animation (and probably double-buffer) support ?
The immediate thought that occurs to me is that gif animations work by storing each frame in a layer, and using the layer descriptions to hold the time to display it. So a component with a series of dynamically created TPicture's which cycles the "visible" property between them according to the layer descriptions and places one layer in each TPicture could certainly do it. Will need some overhead and probably a TTimer integrated but it should certainly be doable - if you can at least have support to 1) load a single layer from a gif file into a TPicture 2) Get the layer descriptions from the gif file. I would be happy to code such a component if there is a consensus it will work like this, and somebody is willing to help me solve the 2 prerequisites (which could be done through a seperate library if needed - libungif ?) A.J. -- A.J. Venter CEO - OutKast Solutions C.C. http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za Cell: +27 83 455 9978 Fax: +27 21 413 2800 Office: +27 21 591 6766 _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
