GIF Saving? Topic is solved

[Xangis]

The GIF patent expired in 2003/2004. The wxWidgets docs say that wxImage cannot write a GIF. Is that still true or has that been added by now?

If GIF saving was added, do you know in what version it first appeared?

[okurtsev]

Yes, the GIF format may now be used freely.

But it seems that GIF saving have not appeared yet in wxWidgets. I've not hear any information about changes.

[Auria]

This is probably because by the time the GIF patent expired, PNG had already taken over GIF; so probably no one saw any interest in saving GIF files. But of course this is open source, so if you have any interest in doing so you can contribute the code to the developers

[Xangis]

Even if it's less popular now, GIF is still one of the most common file formats -- certainly more so than a lot of the others that are supported, so it is probably worth having.

It looks like The GIMP can save GIFs. Maybe they have some code we can pilfer... err, I mean, adopt?