[Lazarus] Bitmap animation component

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

> Hi,
>
> I created a bitmap animation component for fpGUI. It works like the
> old Netscape spinning logo. One image with all the frames layout in in
> a horizontal position.
>
> It doesn't have much use, other that to take up some space on a form
> and entertain your users.  :-)  Does something like this exist for
> Lazarus?  If not, I'll port the component with an example application.

I would have some use for it if the ability to specify how many times the 
animation should be played (none, always, 1, 2, etc), be able to specify the 
speed and direction (actually having a ping-pong style animation sequence 
would be nice, like 0-1-2-3-4-3-2-1-repeat, especially for one-time 
animations) and support transparency.

In fact i want to use it as a little animating "warning" icon at the right 
side of some input boxes when the user enters invalid stuff :-).

Kostas