this plug-in is base on winicon
i read this
and add some code
now it can read and write .ani file

binary file
ani(Win32bin).zip

source code
winani(src).zip
maybe some one want to make it better

***** 2007/12/30 *****
made some fix
now the cursor hotspot can be fix at the left top
because does not know about the cursor hotspot
so you can't custom it position

***** 2009/06/25 *****
fixed custom hotspot position
previous version forgot initialize hotspot default value to (0, 0)
so if you did not change the hotspot xy value
it may cause the problem

:h: that 's cool
PS
i really like your new avatar

thanks
glad someone like it
It is done by the gimp animation package

This thing rocks, its been really fun to use, but when you say the top left do you mean 1,1 or just the top left area?

[0, 0] top left, see this

Does anyone know if this plugin has been updated for gimp 2.4.5?, the installer exe fails to find libgimp-2.0-0.dll. Or is there another plugin with the same functions?

NB; Bit wary of trying to find and install the old dll just in case of conflicts with new gimp and ruining my installation.

no need to update that plugin 2.4.5 already works

Only...that file you downloaded is NOT a plugin installer BUT the plugin itself, so instead then click on it to install you must move as it is in your plugin folder

@PhotoComix; Excellent, working as it should. Took me a little while to find where plug-ins go (noobs eh), but all is right in the world of gimp fun again. Thanx for the tip.

@JamesH; This is superb, just the job.

im not exactly sure how to use the plugin

this plug in works great for most cursors i make. if there is no animation or the animation uses the same area (i.e. just changing the color of an existing object) it will work fine. However, if i have a pixel on the screen that goes from transparent to colored in the animation, it does not return to transparent on the frames when it would be. So for instance, this smiley would work fine, but if it were to move around then the areas where the face was and no longer is would stay the color they were and not turn transparent.

I'm running gimp 2.6 on vista. any help would be great. thanks!

i am not sure what kind of transparency is supported by .ani files

If is as for gif,there may be the root of the problem.

If that, if only Yes/Not transparency is supported then you should, before clearing, sharpen the selection to avoid partially selected pixels
(that will result in partially transparent pixels )

Is just a guess i am not sure if ani files may support also partial transparency

Yes , i guessed right
ani files support only i bit transparency (see http://www.gdgsoft.com/anituner/help/aniformat.htm )so you can't apply antialiases or use partial transparency..transition from transparency to color has to be sharp, no smoothing allowed

IF not once saved, in case of partially transparent pixels all that with >50% transparency will become fully transparent,all that with <50% transparency will get the BG color

that is a limit of the format so no change in the plugin may help:
if will look nice saved as animated gif,(nicealso when placed on BG of different colors) then will look nice if saved as Animated cursor

EDIT
or maybe not i overlooked this note



But is not clear if that apply to .ani files, the best seems to check in practice if my suggestion works

I ran into an extreme glitch where I made a cursor and when I used it, my computer screen began to spas out insanely and I was almost unable to so much as change the cursor back were it not for my luck with the keyboard. It was rediculous...any suggestions on why this would happen?

Maybe it is because I used partial transparency on an ani cursor (which was one frame btw).

I figured out what happened, for some reason, I cannot save it any other way but save as or else it makes an evil cursor that screws with my computer. ^ _ ^ glad that I figured it out though

hope this version fixed the problem
please re download and try again