tedd said:
>   placing moving GIF's in an HTML document is pretty simple 
>   and they work without any programming effort. 

yep.

and there's programs out there that will
monitor the screen and save an animated .gif of what you do,
which allow you to create some great user tutorial .gifs.


>   My questions, why can't we do the same thing in FB? 
>   Or, can we? Anyone have any information as to this possibility?

support for animated .gifs was in our wish list for staz.

i have bought the graphic translators that staz sells,
but it wasn't obvious how i could store a .gif in my .rsrc fork
in the same way that i store a .pict,
which is one thing i really wanted out of the package.

did i just miss it?

i mean, i figure i can just read the file into a handle,
store it in a custom resource,
and then later read it back
for feeding to the translation routine.

but i was looking for something as simple as picts, like:
picture field, %resource_number_of_pict% , (0,0)-(200,200) , _framed

anyway, it might not be that hard to figure out how to
drive an animated .gif from within a futurebasic program.

it'd be just parsing the data, and refreshing the graphic, not?
(it's easy for me to _say_, anyway.)            :+)

-bowerbird