[Psi-devel] Animated GIF.

[Justin Karneges]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 11:46 am, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Michał Majchrowicz <mmajchrowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi. I would like to know whether Animated gif support has been
> > implemented in current trunk or not? Or maybe it is possible to
> > convert images to different file format to make them "animate". And if
> > there is no way to achieve something like this I would like to know
> > how can I help to implement this?
>
> You don't say for what.  For avatars: no animation is allowed.  For
> iconsets you can create a strip of images and have them animate (check
> the default iconset for an example)

You can use animated GIFs, MNGs, or the "strip of images PNG" format.

The problem is that animated files only work properly for events (e.g. the 
roster or trayicon).  They don't work for emoticons.  This is really just a 
display issue, because we don't know how to animate icons properly within a 
QTextEdit widget (if it is possible at all).

What's funny is that emoticons will animate in the emoticon selection area, 
because that part doesn't use QTextEdit.  Or at least, it used to work this 
way.  I haven't checked in awhile.

-Justin