[GOODIE] SlideShow

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Mon Aug 20 15:46:41 UTC 2001


John --

>
>One thing I really miss in Squeak is the ability to show animated gifs.
>Any ideas as to what's involved?

Look at how the animation in the etoys stuff works. You just drop 
your pix into holders and write a two line script. Look at "Sam's 
Face Ball" on Squeakland (under elementary school).

Cheers,

Alan

At 3:07 AM +0100 8/20/01, John Hinsley wrote:
>"Jochen F. Rick" wrote:
>>
>>  For all those Squeakers with digital cameras...
>>
>>  http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/53
>>
>>  Peace and Luck!
>>
>
>Wow! I don't have a digital camera, but have a huge collection of jpegs
>and similar stuff. This is a really nice peice of work, Jochen. I think
>it's a better slide show than any of the ones currently available for
>Linux, if only because it doesn't take an age to set up and doesn't jump
>into the .xvpics directory (containing thumbnails of the originals)
>which Gimp's guash and xv create.
>
>I'm particularly impressed by the speed.
>
>Thanks Jochen.
>
>Two little issues (sort of) related to this (things I may get round to
>having a serious look at after Christmas).
>
>What would it take to write a guash in Squeak? (For those who don't know
>it, guash is a Gimp plug in -- it comes with the Windows version, *nix
>people have to build it -- which writes a thumbnail of every image in
>the directory it's pointed at to a .xvpics directory within that
>directory and displays them. By having two instances of guash open you
>can graphically sort images from one directory to the other, and by
>clicking on them you can display them full size. IIRC, PaintShopPro had
>a similar tool (maybe it still does).
>
>One thing I really miss in Squeak is the ability to show animated gifs.
>Any ideas as to what's involved?
>
>Cheers
>
>John
>--
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