Animated icon

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Hello. I have made an animated icon but it dosent work as I whant it to do. When I got the mouse over the icon it redo the animation when I just move the mouse a very litel bit(but still over the icon). Please check it out:
http://83.227.193.230/test.dxpack
Belive it´s just some setting I have missed... Any idea what?
desktopx
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
as an animated icon using dtx. it works better if you use more than one pic. take the first or last frame from the bmp and use it for the mouse away = depending on direction of frame movement - (frames = 1), then use the 6 frame bmp for the mouse over. see how that works out.

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The pack I looked at needed an image defined for the mouse over state.

When I moused over, it was showing no image...which meant the mouse was no longer over it, so it showed the mouse away state image, which meant mouse was over...and so on. This caused the flickering.

When making these I like to use the "Copy From" button on the States panel a lot. Set up your mouse away, with image and animation settings. Then add a Mouse Over state, then copy the mouse away state. That way you'll have an image automatically defined (can be changed) and may only need to change the direction of the animation to get your desired effect.

good luck, hope that helps!

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