[Glade-users] GnomeAnimator

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

Chia Benham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have problem using the gnome_append_frame_from_file () function.
> Basically, I have a function containing
> gnome_animator_append_frame_from_file (GNOME_ANIMATOR(data), "buf1.xpm", 0,
> 0, 1000)
> to add a frame from the file "buf1.xpm". The content of "buf1.xpm" is
> changed periodically. The add frame function is called everytime the content
> of this file is changed, however the image added to the animation do not
> change correspondingly but remains as the original image (that is the image
> of the first time this add frame function is called). It seems that after
> the first time the content of buf1.xpm is loaded, subsequent call does not
> reload the file but use back the content resident in the memory. Can anyone
> help? Did I miss out anything?

I think Imlib may cache images based on their filename. So it assumes buf1.xpm
hasn't changed and doesn't reload it.

I don't know how you can work around that. Maybe you could use gdk-pixbuf instead.

Damon