[george68]

Just wondering... I have a fairly large flash animation I'd like to make the backround on my FP imac. Anyway to do this?

- Rob

[badidea]

Can't Quicktime play flash animations?
Then it should be possible that a background movie player can do what you want!?!

[revmitcz]

Since you can also make screensavers from Flash movies, and screensavers can be made into desktops many, many ways in OS X - that should work as well

[NetworkShadow]

BackLight 2 is really nice and should do the job if you can get your flash into a screen saver: http://freshsqueeze.com/products/freeware/ 'SaveHollywood' screen saver should do the trick since it works with any qucktime format (flash files can be played in QuickTIme) http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood.html

Have fun!

[themarvelous3]

how about an animated .gif? how would i go about sticking that on my desktop

[NetworkShadow]

I'm not aware of any way of getting animated .gif files on the desktop... you might be able to extract each frame (save as .jpg) and place them in ordered file names (001.jpg, 002.jpg etc) and set your desktop prefs to cycle through them in order at 1 a second or whatever. I think that would be a bit much work though if you've got a really long .gif animation.

[themarvelous3]

or if the animation is faster than 1 second delays : )

[NetworkShadow]

Ya that's another problem.
You might also be able to export the .gif as flash or QuickTime, if you've got the software to do so...

[dggraphics]

It is possible to make animated gif's on the desktop, but you have to use Konfabulator. I did this before by taking a widget as an example, ie-spacestation or gir then use the xml from that widget and insert your own frames. It takes some work but you can make some cool animated 'icons'(really widgets) with it. just set it to launch what you want. Kind of like desktop X objects.

[cube3]

Use web desktop and point to an animated local resource

http://www.stevenf.com/index.php?node=WebDesktop

[NetworkShadow]

Originally posted by cube3:
Use web desktop and point to an animated local resource

http://www.stevenf.com/index.php?node=WebDesktop

That's the one problem though, how do you set the homepage, or can you set a homepage for it? It's really annoying having to type in the URL every time it starts.