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#How to Animate Icon?

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#169713From: Heidi GoodMay 11, 1995 10:37 PM
Hi, I'm creating some marketing tools and multimedia enhancements for a large client/server development co. I wanted to create an animated icon to launch their App from Windows. Is your product of any help with such a thing? How is this done? I have the animation in .FLC. I just need to turn it into an icon somehow. Any hints? Heidi
#169819From: NAAUGMay 12, 1995 2:16 PM
>> I'm creating some marketing tools and multimedia enhancements for a large client/server development co. I wanted to create an animated icon to launch their App from Windows. Is your product of any help with such a thing? How is this done? I have the animation in .FLC. I just need to turn it into an icon somehow. Any hints? << only once have i used a flic for creating an icon… Visual C\C++ and Visual Basic have tools (ex: button, listbox, text, _animated icon_) to create animated icons. i used flisumry (a poco routine) to create a single frame synopsis of a 16-frame animation, saved as a BMP, brought this into paintbrush, used clipboarding of each frame to paste into the icon definitions. whole process took about an hour but did work. keep in mind that the icons have an EXTREMELY limited palette. -dave