VID - ANIM Style?

[KenSingleton]

Can anyone show me how the ANIM style works in VID? I cannot find any documentation or examples that use it.
Regards, Ken.

[PeterWood]

Ken

The only hint of any explanation I could find is a reference to anim demo on Anton Rolls's 'rebsite' back in 2004. It may be something completely different though.

You can try to see if its still at Rebol.com/sites/anton via View/Desktop.

Peter

[KenSingleton]

Thanks Peter for the suggestion. I have just tried it but none of Anton's folders open but the folders on other sites do! Regards, Ken.

[PeterWood]

Ken

I've asked your question on the Rebol Mailing List. The first response was from Rosemary De Dear :

This started me with some animation:

REBOL[File %dot.r]
{anim frames first found in title: "je marche seul" author: "Emmanuel Garbe"}
view layout [
backcolor snow
anim frames  [%d1.gif %d2.gif  %d3.gif  %d4.gif]
150x150 rate 15
]

I've attached the four little dot pictures - d1.gif ... etc.

...but I can't attach the images here...


...perhaps you could join the Rebol Mailing List at http://www.rebol.com/discussion.html

or view messages in the mailing list archive at http://www.rebol.org

Peter

[PeterWood]

Ken

Anton Rolls came up with some helpful hints. Here's some examples:

Let's see some examples using the ANIM style sub-dialect:

   view layout [anim frames [%path/to/image1.png %path/to/image2.png]]

   view layout [anim rate 4 frames [%path/to/image1.png %path/to/image2.png]]

   view layout [anim frames [%image1.png %image2.png %image3.png] rate 10]

As you can see, the FRAMES and RATE sub-dialect words can be specified in any order.

It is difficult to get the ANIM style to work initially, with simple code such as:

   view layout [anim]

Anton suggested taking a look at the source of anim to see how it works - it is written in Rebol - and gave some useful hints how to do so easily.

If you like to take a look at the source, you could either let me know in this forum and I'll pass on the details or take a look at Anton's message at Rebol.org.

[KenSingleton]

Peter, once again a big thankyou!
The word I was missing was the 'frames' word, now it all works and animating is as simple as the rest of Rebol.

I will take your advice and subscribe to the mailing list.

Thanks too to Anton!

Regards, Ken.