Frame-by-frame animation for buffer icon

[pablo]

For animated buffer icons that don't rotate easily, it would be nice to have a non-swf mechanism for creating the animation. One way to do this would be to provide a frame-by-frame animation for skin elements. The skin XML would look like this:

<component name="display">
	<sequence name="bufferIcon" interval="150">
	    <frame element="bufferIcon01" />
	    <frame element="bufferIcon02" />
	    <frame element="bufferIcon03" />
...
	</sequence>
	<elements>
		<element name="bufferIcon01" src="bufferIcon0001.png" />
		<element name="bufferIcon02" src="bufferIcon0002.png" />
		<element name="bufferIcon03" src="bufferIcon0003.png" />
...
	</elements>
</component>

[jeroen]

Moving this to 5.4, so it goes together with all other skin enhancements.

[jeroen]

Frankly, with some tricks there's quite some things one can do with the buffer rotation. Not so much needed.

We should probably list out the tricks in the skinning guide:

• 90deg rotations
• rotating icons first half a rotation cycle in Fireworks/Photoshop
• very slow rotation speeds

[pablo]

Placing in backlog, since v6 skins continue to use the spinning animtion

[jeroen]

The rotation looks great in HTML5 and good enough in Flash. Closing this one for now.