Check out the 'gif2swf' program that's part of the free 'swftools' package. Their site is here: http://www.swftools.org/ One downside is that it does not preserve animation timing from the GIF file.
Also, if you are using AS3 (as you should be), someone has actually written an animated GIF decoder: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95 HTH, David R On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Alan Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> when we start with GIF, where are we going to end? > > Personally I don't think gif support is a slippery slope at all. Gifs are a > common image format for games, one of the main uses of flash. > > Converting static gifs to png is fine, but the png format doesn't support > animation. For animated gifs I would have to convert each frame individually > then build a movieclip in swfmill, correct? That's work better suited for a > computer program. > > Can you suggest a program for converting an animated gif to png frames? I > could probably write a program to generate the swfmill xml myself. > > Regardless, I still think this belongs in swfmill. It seems like a common > enough problem that it should be supported. Though, maybe I'm wrong seeing > as I didn't find anyone else asking about gif support. > > _______________________________________________ > swfmill mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org > > _______________________________________________ swfmill mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org
