Here it is! Animated icons!

This is something I’ve been making since some weeks, and in fact I finished before the current stable version started with the betas. But unfortunately I needed a way to choose a file, and the awesome lollipop file picker doesn’t return the path of the picked file. So I instead used Lighting’s file picker, which had some bugs fixed in the current version 😉 {Did someone notice the animated icon on my previous script video ‘Dynamic editor’? }

Currently the script can only use .gif files, but if you know any icon pack with animated icons that are not gifs, tell me and I’ll try with that. Also if you know an icon pack of gif files tell us in comments, as I could only find this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20150320083052/http://www.redworks.com/en/free-flat-animated-icons (NOTE: the site seems to be now a different one. For this reason the link is from the web archive)

The instructions are easy: run the script from the icon, choose a gif file, and accept if you want it to be automatically animated (otherwise you’ll need to set the script to an event). If your want to change to another gif file, just run the script again.

Important: the launcher keeps the reference of the gif file. If you remove it or change it’s path it will prompt an error.

Note: the more animated icons you have, the slower they all will become. You can change the fps in the script if necessary.

{In the video there are 13 animated icons simultaneously, and they still play at a good rate.}

Technical details:

A Movie file is created with the path chosen as parameter.

Successive timeouts are fired which draws that Movie in the live image of the icon.

I personally used it when I needed to check if a script was taking long to load, instead of writing ‘return’ at the beginning.

For you to remember: when you open a script in the script editor it is automatically enabled.