Animated GIF support wood be nice.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:11 am
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Animated GIF support wood be nice.
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:17 am
Gif can't be supported, because of copyright issues, sorry.
Timo
Timo
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:03 am
The copyright for the compression algo used by gif's expired last year. No more (c) issues ...
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:48 pm
The copyright has only expired in the USA. It still exists in many other
countrys. But as i've just read, it won't be existing there for long either
So... a little longer to wait, then things like this might be possible again.
Timo
countrys. But as i've just read, it won't be existing there for long either
(seen here: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/6/19/35919/4079 )# The European patent EP0,129,439 covers Germany, France, Britain and Italy and expires on the 18th June 2004.
# The Canadian patent CA1,223,965 expires on the 6th June 2004.
# The Japanese patents 2,123,602 and 2,610,084 expire on the 20th June 2004.
So... a little longer to wait, then things like this might be possible again.
Timo
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:40 pm
Ah . No problem then. Its fine as awa he is now.Great language.
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:01 am
> Gif can't be supported, because of copyright issues, sorry.
There are alternatives... a search for animated gif here has some
examples of how to show them.
There are alternatives... a search for animated gif here has some
examples of how to show them.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:59 am
if it's agif i need then what i do is extract each picture then put them into a png strip with a pink background then use transparentsprite and the spriteclip commands to show them if it's for web then maby a AVI
Sean
Sean
Yep
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:52 am
Yes, PureBasic needs this. Patents on GIF's are all expiring.
This enables animation to PureBasic with minimum programming. Also, for computer generated graphics, GIF compression is excellent.
Problem with GIF viewer in Code Archive version 1.8 is that it uses the webgadget to view a GIF. This is not only in efficient, but does not work on many computers do the ATL.DLL dependency as discussed in another thread.
This enables animation to PureBasic with minimum programming. Also, for computer generated graphics, GIF compression is excellent.
Problem with GIF viewer in Code Archive version 1.8 is that it uses the webgadget to view a GIF. This is not only in efficient, but does not work on many computers do the ATL.DLL dependency as discussed in another thread.