Rendering of animated emoticons

[Xaarnak]

Don't know if this is/was posted, very new to the app and around here - so if it is/was posted, sorry...

I have noticed that some of the animated emoticons render very poorly in aMSN. This happens mostly due to the fact that during optimization of the gifs some authors choose to remove the repeated pixels from the animation in order to make it smaller. Due to this a part of the emoticon disappears in some phases of the animation or it gets totally scrambled. Could this be fixed by changing a setting, with a new plugin or is it impossible/too much work to fix..?

Thanx in advance...

[kakaroto]

hi,
Welcome to the forums and to our community!
The rendering of animated gif files should work just fine! There have been issues previously but as far as I know, they've all been fixed.. I'm not sure (I don't think) that those fixes were included in the latest stable release (0.97.2) so you might need to try out the SVN version (instructions available here : http://amsn-project.net/wiki/SVN)
If it still doesn't render correctly with the SVN version, please post in here which version you were using (the svn revision can be viewed in the about window) as well as the problematic image, so we can try and fix it.
Thanks!

[lorthirk]

I agree with Xaarnak, many emoticons seems to be chopped or scrambled. I am using MacOS X 0.98ß4, which should be equal to r10952 of the SVN trunk.