Cartoon animation

Rebol can use multiple image to create animations like this:

The following script shows how to use them:

Just click on the button to see the animation moving around the window:

This is the source code, don't be scared of the 12 image binary data embedded in this script; the real script is just the last 15 lines:


Rebol [
title: "Animated GIF Example"
date: 29-june-2008
file: %animated-gif.r
author: Nick Antonaccio
purpose: {
An example of how to use the 'anim' function.
Taken from the tutorial at http://musiclessonz.com/rebol_tutorial.html
}
]

make-dir %./frames

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view center-face layout [
size 625x415
backcolor black
anim: anim rate 10 frames [%./frames/frame-1.gif %./frames/frame-2.gif %./frames/frame-3.gif %./frames/frame-4.gif %./frames/frame-5.gif %./frames/frame-6.gif %./frames/frame-7.gif %./frames/frame-8.gif %./frames/frame-9.gif %./frames/frame-10.gif %./frames/frame-11.gif %./frames/frame-12.gif]
btn "Run Animation" [
for counter 0 31 1 [anim/offset: anim/offset + to-pair rejoin [counter "x" 0] show anim wait .05]
for counter 0 24 1 [anim/offset: anim/offset + to-pair rejoin [0 "x" counter] show anim wait .05]
for counter 0 31 1 [anim/offset: anim/offset + to-pair rejoin ["-" counter "x" 0] show anim wait .05]
for counter 0 24 1 [anim/offset: anim/offset + to-pair rejoin [0 "x-" counter] show anim wait .05]
]
]