{reduxdj} wrote:
> I know this seems silly, animated gif support in flex - why not?

The Adobe Flex Framework, Flex Builder IDE, and Flex Data Services run
on your machines. What runs on the enduser's machine is the Adobe Flash
Player.

Adobe Flash Player hasn't worked directly with external animated GIF
before, mainly because this format is so bulky compared to native SWF
drawing routines. If they can't see the GIF, we can't use it.

There are various ways to make GIF animations playable in the Adobe
Flash Player... you can import and convert existing GIF animations in
the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, for instance:
http://www.adobe.com/go/12837

jd





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