[wxPython-users] wx.animate.Animation Question

[Robin Dunn]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> Hannes MŸueller wrote:
>> ani = wx.animate.Animation("filename.gif")
>>
>> I want to distribute this application, and I want to reduce the amount 
>> of files i have to distribute and that can lead to "user induced errors".
>> Is there any way I can store the gif information in the code and make 
>> the Animation constructor read it from there?
> 
> wxPython provides wx.tools.img2py, which can be called to convert .png 
> files into importable python source code. I guess it works with .gif 
> too, or there's some other similar script for gifs which you could use.
> 

img2py will convert the gif to a png first before embedding it, so it 
will unfortunately loose the additional animation frames and timing info.

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