+rockymtn8iv Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I've been trying to find out some info on Animated Icons. I am interested in how many there are and the geocoins they represent. So far I have only been able to find 1............ The World Traveler. Are there any others???? Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I've been trying to find out some info on Animated Icons. I am interested in how many there are and the geocoins they represent. So far I have only been able to find 1............ The World Traveler. Are there any others???? I don't think they are allowed anymore. Quote Link to comment
+rockymtn8iv Posted May 19, 2009 Author Share Posted May 19, 2009 I don't think they are allowed anymore. Sure appreciate the fast response. So I take it there is only the 1. That is kind of a bummer. Happy Cachin' to you MustangJoni! Quote Link to comment
+slowdownracer Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 The Gas Can geocoin was animated for a short while, then removed. A drop of gas fell from the spout every few seconds. Yes, too bad there aren't more. They are very cool. Quote Link to comment
+J10fly Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I think that 1 is it anymore. Here is a link to a profile that tries to keep up with the coin icons: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/Default....65-596d69515146 There's a link floating around somwhere that has every coin icon that is in the database. I have the link on my comp at home not here though. Quote Link to comment
SCP-173 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I can say for certain it's only the one. I asked when I was making the Finger Lakes coin's icon and was told they're not allowed anymore. A good and bad decision, really. Done in moderation they can be cool, but I'd hate to see the icons page turned into a 1998 geocities webpage. Quote Link to comment
+ElliPirelli Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I really appreciate that those animated icons are not allowed anymore. I hate the flushy icon of the world traveler. But that's just me... Quote Link to comment
+dflye Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I think that 1 is it anymore. Here is a link to a profile that tries to keep up with the coin icons: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/Default....65-596d69515146 There's a link floating around somwhere that has every coin icon that is in the database. I have the link on my comp at home not here though. If you follow through enough links on the Trackable Items page, eventually you'll get to a button that launches this link in a shrunken down window: Big Honkin' List o' Trackable Geocoin Icons Note that this page takes approximately forever to load initially as it downloads thousands of tiny images. Quote Link to comment
+J10fly Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I think that 1 is it anymore. Here is a link to a profile that tries to keep up with the coin icons: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/Default....65-596d69515146 There's a link floating around somwhere that has every coin icon that is in the database. I have the link on my comp at home not here though. If you follow through enough links on the Trackable Items page, eventually you'll get to a button that launches this link in a shrunken down window: Big Honkin' List o' Trackable Geocoin Icons Note that this page takes approximately forever to load initially as it downloads thousands of tiny images. Yah that's the one! Man imagine if even 1/4 of those were animated, there would have to be some sort of warning on there. Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 A page full of animated icons is a visual nightmare. Glad they stopped it. Quote Link to comment
+dflye Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I wouldn't mind the subtle animation as described for the Gas Can geocoin from a few years back. Icons that behave like the html "blink" tag should be taken out behind the shed and beaten with a shovel until they stop twitching! For those trying to get a list of geocoin icons by approximate release order, you need to sort that list by the img id instead of the geocoin name. Here is some sample perl hacked together to generate some shoddy HTML example of what that list would look like: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $infile = "AllGeocoins.html"; my $outfile = "AllGeocoinsSorted.html"; my %imgHash = (); my @imgList; my $prefixID; my $imgID; my $imgSrc; my $imgText; open(INFILE, "<$infile") || die("Could not open geocoin input listing file $infile\n"); open(OUTFILE, ">$outfile") || die("Could not open geocoin output sorted listing file $outfile\n"); while (<INFILE>) { if (/<li id="(.*)"><img id="img(\d*)" src="..\/images\/wpttypes\/*(\d*).gif" width="32" height="32" onerror="this.src='..\/images\/wpttypes\/23.gif'" border="0" alt="Geocoin Icon" class="geocoin-icon" \/><span class="geocoin-text">(.*)<\/span><\/li>/) { $prefixID = $1; $imgID = $2; $imgSrc = $3; $imgText = $4; $imgHash{$2}{prefixID} = $prefixID; $imgHash{$2}{imgID} = $imgID; $imgHash{$2}{imgSrc} = $imgSrc; $imgHash{$2}{imgText} = $imgText; } } close(INFILE); for $imgID (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %imgHash) { printf OUTFILE " <li id=\"$imgHash{$imgID}{prefixID}\">$imgHash{$imgID}{prefixID}, img$imgHash{$imgID}{imgID}, $imgHash{$imgID}{imgSrc}.gif: <img id=\"img$imgHash{$imgID}{imgID}\" src=\"http://www.geocaching.com/images/wpttypes/$imgHash{$imgID}{imgSrc}.gif\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" onerror=\"this.src='http://www.geocaching.com/images/wpttypes/23.gif'\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Geocoin Icon\" class=\"geocoin-icon\" /><span class=\"geocoin-text\">$imgHash{$imgID}{imgText}</span></li>\n"; } close(OUTFILE); Quote Link to comment
+Droo Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I remember 2 other coins that had animated gifs for icons.... 07 Compass Rose and Delaware: Colonial 100. You can still see animated gifs on Coincodes... Quote Link to comment
+rockymtn8iv Posted May 19, 2009 Author Share Posted May 19, 2009 Wow! You all are AWESOME! I appreciate all the feedback! Quote Link to comment
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