I’ve been doing some more testing and I attempted to save the file to the hard drive first (instead of pulling the data from a URL) and then load it into NSImage. The results are the same, however, as it just attaches the image as a PNG instead of a GIF.
I’m really stumped here... Charles Carver > I'm pretty new to Objective-C, but have been mostly understanding everything > so far. I am stuck, however, on trying to share an animated GIF through > NSSharingService. > > I am attaching the image like so, where “image" is a string containing the > URL of an animated GIF (http://i.imgur.com/V8w9fKt.gif, for example): > > NSImage *imageData = [[NSImage alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL > URLWithString:image]]; > NSArray *shareItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:imageData, @“Text", nil]; > NSSharingService *service = [NSSharingService > sharingServiceNamed:NSSharingServiceNameComposeMessage]; > service.delegate = self; > [service performWithItems:shareItems]; > > When the code is run and the message is sent, however, the image gets sent as > a PNG file instead of a GIF. > > I found a GitHub repo (https://github.com/glebd/ImageSharingTest/) which was > attempting to answer a similar problem. A solution was never found, however, > but the last bit of advice was: > > However, when I add an NSAttributedString with a GIF attachment > toNSSharingServicePicker, the shared image is not animated. I can't add the > wrapper RTFD data to the picker, as it can only share objects that support > NSPasteboardWriting protocol, and the RTFD is returned as NSData. > Copying RTFD data to pasteboard as NSRTFDPboardType works and preserves > animation > > Would it be possible to convert the GIF to an RTDF object, copy it to the > pasteboard, retrieve the pasteboard item, then share that object? Or is there > another solution to sharing animated GIFs with NSSharingService? > > Charles Carver _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
