The animated Duke is to show you can (if you want) use an animated
GIF and get it to animate.
This is probably impossible. But it occurred to me I did attempt
something sort of similar a while back. I was trying to write an RSS
news reader. I ended up shelving that one. It was slow rendering the
HTML. Or showing it anyhow, I don't know that I benchmarked to see
exactly where it was slow. I also was unsure what to do with embedded
javascript except just try to figure out how to eliminate it.
But pertinent to this topic, I wanted something like the banner
headline that the news channels sometimes have at the bottom of the
screen. If there was enough real estate on OS X the Finder menu bar
might be the best place to put it. Always present, but reasonably
unobtrusive.
Looking right know - it appears that between the usual menu items and
the jdic type, I have 5 system tray type items there about all the
time, there wouldn't be enough room.
Unless you could resize the menu bar to give it a second line? Would
that be possible?
I ended up gluing a 1 line size JWindow or Window at the bottom of
the menubar. This actually worked reasonably well. You had to
manually ensure no windows ended up on top of it as I remember.
Trying to set it to stay always on top was weird and didn't work well.
Again if there was room, especially an entire extra line, the usual
menubar would not have these concerns. It would always be there and
could not be covered up.
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