Hi MareroQ,

Thanks!

I have been investigating and it seems a little more of an issue than I originally thought. The problem is that during compilation of file-apng.c, the datadir is passed in and the ui_file location gets sort of hardcoded into file-apng.exe. If you have access to strings and you examine file-apng.exe then you will see the above location in the executable file. I will continue to investigate whether I can make the exe location independent. This will take time since I have to figure out how the authors coded the whole shebang.

In the meantime, if anyone is interested to use apng, you will have to do what MareroQ did (for 32 bit). For 64-bit check the error and create the appropriate location.

BTW, the "strange" location is my development environment - separate for 32-bit and 64-bit.

Sorry for the "inelegant" solution for the time being.

Thanks,
Partha

i had a update.
change load plug-in-file-apng.ui from user-specific GIMP settings plug-ins directory
"settings/plug-ins" on my build or ".gimp-2.7.3/plug-ins" on Partha's build.

In my build I changed it this way:

ui_file = g_build_filename (gimp_plug_in_directory(), "plug-ins", "file-apng.ui", NULL);

Thanks Partha and Mr. Q it works excellent now.

Hi JamesH & MaxSt,

That was my first try since that is how file-png.c is set up. However, I am still getting GTK errors. You will notice this on a non-developmental machine away from your own machine where you develop.

Using strings, can you check the location coded into fine-apng.exe?

Thanks,
Partha

Edit: Too early in the morning- should have read more carefully.

The file-png.c uses gimp_data_directory() and you can still relocate. So, I will try you solutions and recheck.

Hi JamesH,
You have entered the code - unfortunately I do not know how to use it?

MareroQ,

He is saying to change the code in file-apng.c and recompiling.

Partha

compiled version is here
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2241&hilit=JamesH&start=40#p29382

Any hope for a more user friendly version of this cool plugin (more integrated with the export dialog )?

The problem is that using the saving dialog (in gimp 2.7 the export dialog) as usual, try to save a apng just adding a .apng postfix to the name (as "image.apng" ) lead to error message (unsupported file type ) and failure

the solution is to use instead a more hidden option in the export dialog , but that is not too user friendly, many will just get up after the error message

Instead would be nice if just adding "apng" to the image name in the main "export" dialog would open the apng-plugin dialog

If you use that path PC it works very nicely.
Just place Parthas "plug-in-file-apng.ui" in this directory tree you can create it yourself.
C:\win32\msys\local\share\gimp-apng\ui\plug-ins
The hard coded exe file looks for it there to build the user interface for the animation export dialog.