Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs?

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Millham
Now you've got me going... I really didn't care that much about animated GIFs, I was just trying to help... But I was getting annoyed that I couldn't figure out how to get the individual frames, or even a frame count. So now I'm working on this. I can now get individual frames from an animated g

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs?

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Millham
As I revisited this, I remembered that my problem with ImageMagick was with threads, not Win32::GUI (ImageMagick doesn't seem to work at all with threads). I've been playing with this, and ImageMagick can read animated gif's. I haven't figured out how to get individual frames from the animation.

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs?

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Millham
A note on ImageMagick, I've had problems getting it to work properly with Win32::GUI. There appears to be a namespace problem, but I haven't really looked into it much. I am currently working on a project that I may need ImageMagick, so if I find anything out about the problem, I'll post it here

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs?

2006-09-25 Thread Robert May
Steve Loughran wrote: Well, my attempts at loading in animated/multi-page GIFs has come to a stop. Image:ParseGIF seems to create "invalid gifs" (but its last update was 1999 apparently!), DIBitmap doesnt handle them at all (due to it using an earlier version of FreeImage), Imager::Files only

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [win32-gui] DIBitmap and Animated GIFs?

2006-09-25 Thread Steve Loughran
Well, my attempts at loading in animated/multi-page GIFs has come to a stop. Image:ParseGIF seems to create "invalid gifs" (but its last update was 1999 apparently!), DIBitmap doesnt handle them at all (due to it using an earlier version of FreeImage), Imager::Files only supports native M$ fil