[wxPython-users] Animated icons for wx notebook

[Robin Dunn]

Frank Aune wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Adding icons to a notebook is relatively easy:
> 
> self.imglist = wx.ImageList(16,16)
> img0 = self.imglist.Add(wx.Bitmap('img.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG))
> self.notebook.AssignImageList(self.imglist)
> self.notebook.SetPageImage(0, img0)
> 
> But what if I want to (temporarily) add an animated gif image to a notebook 
> page? I have the code for displaying animated gifs:
> 
> self.busyIcon = wx.animate.GIFAnimationCtrl(self.frame, -1, 'animate.png')
> self.busyIcon.GetPlayer().UseBackgroundColour(True)
> self.busyIcon.Play()
> 
> But so far I see no way of combining these two into what I need. Does anyone 
> have experience with this kind of approach?

You'll need to do some work yourself, but it can be made to do what you 
want.  In a nutshell you'll need to add all the animation frames to the 
image list and use a timer to change the image currently used for the 
tab to the next animation frame image.  You can use the Animation object 
to get the frames as wx.Image objects, and also the delay between each 
frame, from the image file.

P.S. When you get it working it would be nice to have a writeup about it 
and some sample code in the wiki's Cookbook.

-- 
Robin Dunn
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