Minor suggestion: Export (browse_rsc) animated icon as GIF

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Aug 28 2009, 1:10 am
I tried to check the forum search if this was suggested before but couldn't find it.

I know you can manually save an animated icon as .gif and it would animate but is there something similarly that can be done when exporting an animated icon with browse_rsc() [which acts similarly as saving a PNG when exporting an icon]?

Ex:
browse_rsc(File, FileName, Type = FILE|PNG)
With Type including GIF... or something.... >_>
Aug 28 2009, 2:49 am
GhostAnime wrote:
I know you can manually save an animated icon as .gif and it would animate but is there something similarly that can be done when exporting an animated icon with browse_rsc() [which acts similarly as saving a PNG when exporting an icon]?

Ex:
browse_rsc(File, FileName, Type = FILE|PNG)
With Type including GIF... or something....

That's an interesting idea. The only downside is the problem of limited color support, but then BYOND 3.0 had limited colors anyway so any games whose icons have limited colors and simple transparency could take advantage of this. Personally I'd also love to have APNG support for the same reason, except that IE won't show APNG files because it's a piece of crap.

Lummox JR