Animated Gifs in Flex 3

Question

Believe it or not I need a way of displaying animated gifs in Flex 3. This guy has a component for sale but it's Flex 2 only: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/19/how-to-load-animated-gifs-using-adobe-flex-20/.

And I’ve implemented this example: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95, but for larger gifs it’s very CPU intensive and causes the UI to hang.

Does anyone know of any alternative solutions? Failing that, I may have to look at re-factoring the second example to use pseudo-threading. Eugh.

Solution

Thanks for the response. The google code project in that link (http://code.google.com/p/as3gif/) is the same as the one on bytearray (http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95) which I implemented.

I knocked up a quick pseudo-threading example using this code and it's far too slow.

Looks like I will need to SWF the GIFs on the fly...

Comments

[James Aguilar]

the google code project seems to be the same code as the one from bytearray.

[Eddie Sullivan]

Not directly, but see blog.thehippo.de/2009/09/tools-and-software/…