Hi guys. I've spent the last week scouring the net for help with attempting to code something to solve the transparent animated gif problem. Whilst we always look at alpha channels and compressed images via gimp, I have been wondering whether- just for the time being, it would be useful to try to make a plugin for on screen sprites. Kind of like the animated gif plugin AM has, but with transparency support. I obviously am having trouble and most likely going over things I'm sure you guys here have already pickled your heads over... but what the smeg...
I found this article on the subject from microsoft...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/ ... gertz.aspx
As far as I can tell there might be a way to do the transparent via colour gif animation. I scoured and couldn't find anything to create some kind of controller or something to allow for PNG images. From the rhetoric about, it would appear there are folks all over having the PNG/animated gif transparency problem when it comes to VBScript. If there are any expert programmers with a spare ten minutes there to go over that code and tutorial above, perhaps you can figure some way to allowing for a hotspot to have this feature. I dunno... maybe it's staring us right in the face. Or maybe I'm just pickled here.