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Relrin
Relrin

Reputation: 790

Can't play animation in wxPython

Im trying to play GIF image, which i taken from preloaders site, in my frame:

class TestFrame(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title, style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE ^ wx.RESIZE_BORDER)

        self.animation = wx.animate.AnimationCtrl(self, pos=(40,40), size=(24, 24), name="AnimationCtrl")
        self.animation.LoadFile("./gui/icons/preloader.gif", wx.animate.ANIMATION_TYPE_GIF)
        self.animation.Play()

        size = (310, 150)
        self.SetSize(size)
        self.icon = wx.Icon('./gui/icons/app.ico', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
        self.SetIcon(self.icon)
        self.Show()

In result ill will see only all gif (its looks like just imported image at frame). What i doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1414

Answers (2)

user2963623
user2963623

Reputation: 2295

I tested your code and it worked fine on my computer. I have python 2.7 and wxPython 3.0. If you still haven't solved your problem try using this code:

import wx.animate

class TestFrame2( wx.Frame ):
    def __init__( self, parent ):
        wx.Frame.__init__ ( self, parent, id = wx.ID_ANY, title = u"Testing!", pos = wx.DefaultPosition, size = ( 300,300 ), style = wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE|wx.RESIZE_BORDER )
        self.m_animCtrl1 = wx.animate.AnimationCtrl( self, wx.ID_ANY, wx.animate.NullAnimation, ( 40,40 ), ( -1,-1 ), wx.animate.AC_DEFAULT_STYLE )
        self.m_animCtrl1.LoadFile( u"img.GIF" )
        self.m_animCtrl1.Play()
        self.Layout()
        self.Show()
        self.Centre( wx.BOTH )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    App = wx.App()
    TestFrame2(None)
    App.MainLoop()

Upvotes: 1

Stack of Pancakes
Stack of Pancakes

Reputation: 1921

I'm actually using Py3 and wxPython Phoenix, but this code got it working for me.

import wx
from wx.adv import Animation, AnimationCtrl

class TestFrame(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title)

        self.animation = AnimationCtrl(self, pos=(40,40), size=(24, 24), name="AnimationCtrl")
        self.animation.LoadFile("animated.gif")
        self.animation.Play()

        size = (400, 400)
        self.SetSize(size)
        self.Show()

app = wx.App()
frame = TestFrame(None, -1, "Test gif")
app.MainLoop()

For wxPython I think you need to use a GIFAnimationCtrl instead of AnimationCtrl. I don't have an environment to test it though. Here is the relevant documentation. It's unfortunately pretty sparse.

Even better Blog post with an example. This should give you something to build off of. http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/216673/wxpython-animated-gif

Upvotes: 2

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