wx.animate.Animation Question

[Hannes MŸueller]

Hannes MŸueller wrote:
> Robin Dunn wrote:
>> 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)
>>
> 
> I am sorry, I tried to understand it, but I could not implement it...
> 
> How do I create a correctly formatted stream from my gif file?
> And how can I get the stream directly from the code, without loading a 
> gif from the harddrive?


Okay, I found that it accepts "wx.InputStream" or a File-Like object.

I try the following:

f = open("path_to/file.gif")
ani = wx.animate.Animation()
ani.Load(f)

--> python crashes

it also crashes on
instr = wx.InputStream(f)

What am I doing wrong?

Hannes