[Magick-bugs] Re: [magick-users] help with "animate"

[Dean S. Messing]

Anthony Thyssen wrote:
: "Dean S. Messing" on  wrote...
: |
: | How does one get `animate' to display the name of the currently
: | displayed file name when one is stepping through a set of images?
: |
: |
: | Currently, if I run `animate foo.png bar.png foobar.png'
: | only "foo.png" is displayed in the title bar as I step through.
: |
: Use "display" instead with a -delay setting.
: 
: "Animate" is for animating a single complex GIF animation, not a
: sequence of images.
: <snip>

Thanks, Anthony, for the reply.

Not to be argumentative, but I've been using `animate' to
instantaneously step through a sequence of (similar) images for at
least 8 years.  The behaviour _used_ to be that the image name would
change along with the index in the Title bar of the window.

It no longer does.  The behaviour I desire seems to have
broken between 6.2.5 and 6.2.8. On my Fedora core 5 machine,
(IM 6.2.5) the name changes as I step, either forward or backward.

In 6.2.8 (Fedora Core 6), the first name in the list of frames gets
printed and remains.  This seems to be a bug (which I've seen come and
go before).

Dean