Guest motbe Posted August 4, 2003 Report Posted August 4, 2003 AFAIK, there has never been animated GIF support on Windows CE (including on the SmartPhone build of the OS). But, with the influx of users saying it supports it, that got me to wondering whether the SmartPhone version had support added for it. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Most people say it supports animated GIF's because some of IA Style's applications allow for the use of animated GIF's. I would assume though that they had coded their own routines for dealing with these images, and that they've licensed the use of that format from whomever owns it now (since IA is selling the software, not giving it away).. Aside from that fact, has anyone found a good lib/set of routines for adding GIF89 support (assuming that I'm going to give the software away that I write using it)?
Guest muff Posted August 4, 2003 Report Posted August 4, 2003 I suspect one of the reasons it's not really been supported before now is the licensing issue of gif's this recently changed (or at least I think i read something about that), so maybe future OS versions will include it
Guest Posted August 6, 2003 Report Posted August 6, 2003 Yes- the US patent on GIFs runs out this year (can't remember which month though), and patents in other countries are due to run out next year.
Guest motbe Posted August 7, 2003 Report Posted August 7, 2003 Yeah, the GIF patent expired in June for US developers. Overseas developers have to wait until sometime in 2004 to use GIF code (or at least GIF code that uses LZW compression) without paying royalties.
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