Posted by guest at 2007-07-10 07:13:47

maybe you can make allow view(transport) flash-avatars? with swf2gif or other?

Posted by Z_God at 2007-07-14 21:39:27

This sounds very interesting, but I think it could be quite heavy on the server. Atm, not even normal animated gifs animate properly. Also swf2gif is not a Python lib I guess & thus not always available?

Posted by guest at 2007-07-15 12:39:33

http://ming.sourceforge.net/

Ming is a C library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a set of wrappers for using the library from C++ and popular scripting languages

like PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.

http://pyswftools.sourceforge.net/

This library is intended to be a level up from the Ming SWF library and a step down from a Flash GUI. It contains a Gimp Script-Fu plugin for better (there is an existing C routine but this does not allow for the definition of the attributes) exporting path specifications as SVG images.

Also part of the library is a Svg2Python (badly named as Svg2Flash) which allows SVGs to be converted to a Python class that may be included in any other python class.

Finally, there a number of geometry shapes defined for better defining shapes and manipulating these.

At the moment, the library can be used in Python applications (including

WebBased applications) to generate Flash animations on the fly.

Posted by jadestorm at 2007-07-16 18:42:06

Is the expectation that the flash animation itself be send on to the XMPP client or that it be converted to GIF? I'm not certain, but I don't believe flash is currently "allowed".

Posted by guest at 2007-07-19 07:54:49

no. flash2gif on transport. gif on client.