Re: Animated interface question

[tomas tuxteam de]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:50:32PM +1000, kadil wrote:
> I wrote an application that displayed multiple animated sequences and
> moved them around the screen to represent machine activities. I bit like
> a 2d game
>
> The way that I did it was to create arrays (yes I know I should have
> used linked lists)

why?

>                    of structures that wrapped up each frame of the
> animated sequence and a pointer to the next frame in the sequence. I
> then used a gtk timer [...]
> Is there a way to load and display an animated gif or png file [...]

Caveat: not tested it myself, but gdk has an GdkPixbufAnimation class to
represent animations. And a GtkImage accepts an animation as image (e.g.
with gtk_image_new_from_animation or thereabouts). Worth a try.

HTH
-- tomás