rick said:
>    The main problem with animations like this 
>   (besides sub-optimal compression) 
>   is that you can't control the speed of the playback

i agree that the speed issue is the main one.

but what about the compression one?
if you used the right color _mode on the copybits,
so only changed pixels were copied over,
the pict should be as small as it could be, not?


>   Theoretically, I guess you could use Picture Comments 
>   to put a delay feature into them.

would that kind of delay be independent of machine-speed?
if so, that would be significant.  but i presume not.  rick?

-bowerbird