Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Firefox instead IE

[Geoffrey S. <geo...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Glenn Linderman <pe...@ne...> wrote:
> On approximately 7/23/2008 3:45 AM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of glass:
>>  i have added a menu also.
>> for the people who say why we need a webbrowser to display pictures, i say
>> that the animated pictures are not displayed correctly by most images
>> viewers , try this picture of an animated  crocroach:
>> http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cockroachzm9.gif
>> only in a webbrowser it is displayed correctly.
>
>
> I've never used AxWindow, so I can't help with that.  I'd be interested
> to know, though, if AxWindow can be used to display IrfanView Windows.
>
> Your statement that an animated cockroach cannot be displayed correctly
> in anything but a webbrowser is false, however.  After digging past the
> HTML you pointed to in your link to find the actual .gif file, I was
> able to download and display the cockroach in IrfanView just fine.
> Looks the same as in SeaMonkey browser (which shares the same display
> code as Firefox).
>
> So IrfanView is a much lighter-weight application to load than Firefox,
> and likely much more secure than either Firefox or any other web
> browser, if your goal is just to display images.  A startup parameter
> allows scaling of the image to any size window (fit image to window).

The Win32-GUI wiki also includes this tip on displaying animated GIFs
using ImageMagick:
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Displaying_Animated_GIFs_Using_ImageMagick

I'd imagine this would be more efficient than using an AxWindow
running any external application, although I haven't done any
profiling to prove it.