From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2297 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Animated gif Date: 14 Jun 2000 09:11:34 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <394498D8.755A119C@econ.muni.cz> <3.0.6.32.20000613214840.0184dd50@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393086 7679 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:11:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Christopher G D Tipper" , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:48:40 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2297 Hans Hagen writes: > At 02:30 PM 6/12/2000 +0300, you wrote: > >I was interested in this also, especially after reading up-001-s.pdf. > Would it be possible to set up an endless loop with javascript that cycled > through a list of figures? Does javascript provide a timing mechanism? It > would make rather large PDFs, but it would be a nice thing to be able to > demonstrate. > > You can ask for the time, and even do things with it, but since such a loop > cannot be interrupted, it is useless (I tried all kind of things and wasted > a day). What is needed is an (event) interruptable timer. > > Hans > > PS. Someone should make a java (or perl) plug in. Seems possible. Could you elaborate a bit? You have mentioned that as a desirable thing before, but how would it work, what would it do, and how would one go about writing such a plugin? I especially don't understand how there could be a perl plugin for the Acrobat Reader -- I remember reading about "Penguin", which was supposed to allow for safe execution of untrusted perl code in a "sandbox", along the lines of what's possible in Java, but wouldn't the Reader have to come with a perl interpreter and it's own perl sandbox already configured and ready for plugins? -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/