Shoutbox

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
About that first frame.... I wouldn't duplicate it in the PNG. I would keep the PNG image as something seperate. In that way, a user can decide to put a (slithly or complete) different pic in the PNG for "normal" users.

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That's indeed true, it would allow for more customisation.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Otherwise you bound to some restrictions in making your animated GIF. Furthermore, PNG supports far more colors then GIF and it support alpha transparency (gif not). So you'll loose all that if you duplicate the first frame instead of keeping the two things seperate...

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These, are features PNG does support but MSN Messenger's decoder does not, therefor it's rather pointless in using them; unless we can find a way of completely eliminating the MSN Display Picture viewer and replace it with a home cooked one.

But, that's all things we needn't really worry about until we found a way of transfering the PNG, I'm sure there's more programmers out here who can comment any of my above stated posibilities, as in, indicate which are out of option and which they may know a method of applying.
It seems that we're rather stuck for the moment being, though.. ASM Hack as in the way TheBlasphemer did with his StuffPlug, sounds like the best method, but ASM Debugging / Hacking is way beyond my field of speciality.