[OpenLayers-Users] Has anyone tried animation / or how to?

[Jon Blower]

Hi Levii,

Our OpenLayers-based site (http://www.reading.ac.uk/godiva2) supports
animation of WMS layers but does so because the WMS in question can
generate animated GIFs if you give it a time range.  This is not ideal
because if you want to synchronize some other UI feature with the
animation (e.g. a time indicator or another animation) you can't
because you have no control over animation rates etc.

I think the only way to have this synchronization is to do animation
in javascript but I haven't investigated this in detail.  I'd be
interested in anything you come up with and perhaps we could work
together if we end up wanting the same thing?

Cheers, Jon

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Levii Smith" <smithlev at levii.com>
To: users at openlayers.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:23:25 -0400
Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Has anyone tried animation / or how to?

Just a thought as I work on this...I'm going to attempt to run an
animation of WMS layers. I've seen the example of using TIME in
WMS...has anyone tried animating WMS layers in time (I'm trying to
loop satellite imagery if you're curious)...any ideas how to do it -
or how to keep multiple layers in sync while doing it?

//Levii

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