Cursor FX animated strip

maybe a silly question but..

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Hey there! Not sure if this is the right place but...

I'm attempting to make an animated png strip to use with Cursor fx for the Busy cursor..
I read that you can use Aniutil.exe that comes with Cursor FX.

So I load that up, I load my 2 frames, and it auto creates the .png strip.
Problem is, when I import it in Cursor FX, the animation is so fast.

I have tried to edit parameters like interval between frames. I set it to 1000, I think I read somewhere that it equals one second? But nothing changes. It's still too fast. There is no difference even if I try to enter a new value.
I also tried things like (found on cursor fx guide): 1,500-2,500, which apparently should make frame 1 last 0.5 secs and then frame 2 as well another 0.5. Nothing.

I dunno what else to do, kind of a noob in this. Probably making some mistake..
It's 2 frames of an anime monkey that I want to move its head left and right.

Anyone knows what I could do to make this work?

Thanks in advance!


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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not at all an expert on cursors, but here are a couple of things that might get you past your hurdle:

Within the CursorFX editor, you do have to execute the menu File/Save command to save changes.  If you just close the window it won't save.

After editing, you need to Apply the cursor again in CursorFX to make it load the new settings.

The "Hand" state is a great state to experiment with, it's what shows when you mouse over the "Apply" button in CursorFX.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you for your reply!

I actually was doing that from the beginning but it still did that.

However I believe I have found the problem. I wasn't putting it under the Busy cursor but under the Working in the background one. If I set that same animated png strip to the Busy one it works as intended.

Strange. Maybe that specific one is pre-set to always be fast. No idea.

Anyway, that will do!

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