(c) 1999 by Robert Warren
GXAnim is a graphical interface to XAnim ( the popular movie viewing program for X ) written with the GTK+ toolkit for UNIX platforms. At this time you can quickly find a movie file, play it, and do the usual VCR-like stuff (rewind, fast forward, pause, stop, set volume, etc.), as well as set general play preferences.
GXAnim 0.50 was developed on Mandrake Linux 6.0, kernel version 2.2.9, and version 1.2.5 of the GTK+ widget toolkit.
GXAnim requires a POSIX-compliant UNIX (such as Linux 2.x) and GTK+ 1.2.x to build; it will NOT build on GTK+ 1.0.x releases. GXAnim has been reported to work with Linux, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris with no trouble.
GXAnim is NOT a GNOME application and requires no GNOME libraries to work.
You will also require a XAnim binary (version 2.70.70 and up) in your system path.
Rob
November 19, 1999
0.50 has some new features and some structural changes. One or two of them are going to make GXAnim an interesting little program in the future.. such as the creation of a new GTK widget (okay, a shamelessly stolen and hacked version of an old widget) to handle movie playing. I wasn't really planning on that one.. it was the only solution to a problem I had on hand (how to implement the hide-on-click feature without having the video image flash when the button repainted on focus), and once I had done it I realized that it could be used for a lot of other things.
And, of course, there's the history feature. I don't think it's working perfectly yet, but it's not crashing. Good enough for gov'ment work. :)
See the README and CHANGES files for details..
There is now also an FAQ for GXAnim - please read it.
Download the current version here:
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I've taken the screenshots for 0.20 down - they're terribly outdated.
I have a few screenshots on hand for 0.45; they'll be up shortly as the GXAnim web site gets overhauled. If you'd like to see your desktop up in lights, all you have to do is snap it playing GXAnim (preferably 0.50). Email it to me and there's a fairly good chance it'll get put up.
You can get it here, or from the United States mirror, here.