[wxPython-users] Re: wx.animate.Animation Question

[Robin Dunn]

Hannes MŸueller wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> Thanks, I already tried somethin in that direction, the problem is 
> however that the constructor for the Animation class only accepts 
> strings or unicode strings as parameter. I can't even give it an already 
> open file pointer.
> 
> Anyone knows how to work around this?

The Animation class has a Load method that can take a stream, so you can 
do it something like this:

	anim = wx.animate.Animation()
	anim.Load(stream)
	ctrl = wx.animate.AnimationCtrl(parent, -1, anim)

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