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don't try to remove -g flag from CFLAGS, it is not necessary and doesn't work correct...
[wxWidgets.git] / contrib / src / animate / readme.txt
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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ and non-transparent.
 
 Basically the classes makes use of the existing GIF decoder in
 wxWindows to read an animated GIF into wxGIFAnimation, and then
-play that animation using wxAnimationPlayer. It's very much tied
-to the animated GIF format, so don't expect anything too generic.
+play that animation using wxAnimationPlayer. It's quite tied
+to the animated GIF way of doing animation, so don't expect anything too generic.
 However, it would be quite possible to write code to convert an animated
 GIF into a PNG-based invented format, and then write a wxPNGAnimation
 handler.
@@ -32,4 +32,10 @@ and change the keyword 'protected' to 'public', then recompile
 wxWindows. If you have downloaded the latest code from the CVS trunk,
 the problem has been corrected already.
 
+As an exercise, you might like to write a handler for the
+PNG-based animation format:
+
+http://www.libpng.org/mng/
+http://www.libmng.com/
+
 Julian Smart, 5th July 2001