If anyone out there is currently working on animated icons/cursors in cursoricon.c, I'd like to try to help in any way I can. I'm not really sure where to start on my own though.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Joel,
I've done a little work on animated icons. I've investigated what is necessary to make them work, and written a short plain C program that can parse an animated icon file and extract the icons in it to .xpm files, and a very short test program that doesn't work right in Wine.
The code for loading icons is in windows/cursoricon.c, but the code for playing them will go into controls/static.c.
The note at the top of cursoricon.c about Paint Brush is for windows 3.1, and is not valid for the code we'll write
The major tasks are: 1) redesign the data structure containing the icon/cursor info to allow storing of animated icon data
2) rewrite the icon loading code in cursoricon.c (difficult)
3) write some new animation code (timer based) in static.c
The second part is difficult because the existing code is pretty bad... does this give you enough info on where to start?
Mike
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
If anyone out there is currently working on animated icons/cursors in cursoricon.c, I'd like to try to help in any way I can. I'm not really sure where to start on my own though.
Thanks in advance.
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:22:47 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
I've done a little work on animated icons. I've investigated what is necessary to make them work, and written a short plain C program that can parse an animated icon file and extract the icons in it to .xpm files, and a very short test program that doesn't work right in Wine.
Shouldn't we be using XCursor for this? I have a feeling switching cursors with non-XCursor capable x servers might be hackish/inefficient...
Mike Hearn wrote:
Shouldn't we be using XCursor for this? I have a feeling switching cursors with non-XCursor capable x servers might be hackish/inefficient...
Well, I was thinking more about animated icons, not animated cursors. I'm not sure how(if?) windows supports animated cursors, but if so, Xcursor might be a good place to start.
The code for playing animated icons will go into the static control, and is a kind of simplified animation control.
Mike
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