ani-file 0.0.2

ani file reader and writer

ani_file

.ani file (animated cursor) reader and writer written in python 3.

Was trying to batch extract the frame of some .ani file I got but noticed that there were no library to do so in python so I created one.

Starting point

Open ANI file in similar manner to builtin.open(): from ani_file import ani_file f = ani_file.open(file,mode)

file can be string or file-like object.

mode can be: "r" or "rb" to read an existing .ani file. "w" or "wb" to create a new .ani file. Will overwrite existing file if given same name

Read .ani

Available getter:

getframesinfo() (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET): dictionary of info about number of frames, display sequence of frames, display rate of frames

getnframes(): return number of frames

getseq(): return list of sequence in which the frames appear

getrate(): return list of display rate for each frame

getframesdata(): return list of binary data of each frame

getauthor(): Get name of artist/corporation if present

getname(): Get ani file name (Not the name of the .ani file) if present

Extract and save frames into .ico files:

saveframestofile(outputpath,filenameprefix): Save to specified path. Name of each file will be filenameprefix + index from 0

Write .ani

Available getter (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET):

Same as for read .ani

Available setter:

setframespath(framespath): set list of .ico files that make the frames of the final .ani file. The only function that you really need to write an .ani file

setseq(seq): set seq

setrate(rate): set rate

setauthor(iart): set name of artist

setname(inam): set name of the ani file

Example (INCOMING)

.ani file structure explain (INCOMING)

Code based on wave.py at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/wave.py