What is the animation docklet for?

It's just an example of what can be done. I don't think it serves any purpose other than that.

Aww, nutz. Hey AndreasV! How making a docklet that acts like a normal shorcut but uses the animation doodad for the icon?

Thats what I was wondering.

digital_trucker, that can be done, but would it be of any *real* use?

Sure it would! Wouldn't it be slick to have animated icons for regular OD objects? A spinning globe for your web browser, a spraying paint can for your painting software, and so on. There are all kinds of fun possibilities that would open up.

OK, I will create it:)

it's there, http://home.hccnet.nl/averhoev.2/AnimatedShortcut.zip

Have fun with it.

Thats very cool! and it works Some editable parameters would be cool too.Speed,only on mouseover,animate once ,etc..

How does it know how many images are in the animation?
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Speed can be done, Animate once can be done, On Mouseover can not be done, because there is no mouseover support in the object dock (yet).

Number of images in the animation: Magic

animate once on mouseover I mean.
If I want to make an animation,does it matter then how many images are in the .png?

this could be interesting
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animate once on mouseover can't be done now, because there is no support for mouseover in object dock yet

Animation, uuhm do you have a Windows Messenger address or something?

Icq only right now.My email is in my profile.
Shame about the mouseover prob,that would be important if more people make some animated OD icons.You might not want them all running at once.

You havnt released this as a docklet yet have you?

the speed its set at now is probably fine for most animations.Probably nothing you can do about it pausing when you move the mouse,may even be neccessary for the dock to expand an icon.

I did, but it didn't show up yet. I am trying to implement the mouseover myself now.

Mouseover does now work

neat! redownload?

not yet, I am adding some other features too

farout! thanks.

Go and get it at
http://home.hccnet.nl/averhoev.2/AnimatedShortcut.zip

About the animations: The height of the sequence-file must be also the width of every frame


If you create some cool animation send me at [email protected]

Ok! Thanks again. I suspected thats how you were doing it(the frame count).Clever.
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Thanks

Update on this one, I've changed the mouseover-event.

In the previous version I used the WM_MOUSEMOVE message and the mouse is near the window's borders-technic, which doesn't always work properly.
Now I have switched to the NT-only function TrackMouseEvent() which always work properly. Link is still the same btw http://home.hccnet.nl/averhoev.2/AnimatedShortcut.zip

hehe ok thanks...still thinking ona design

It works very well!One small thing,(sorry to keep bugging you)it starts the animation ,then pauses for a few milliseconds then starts up again.Maybe a small delay before the animation starts to let OD release the processor.(if that makes any sense)
Still very cool!