File Formats: Windows Animated Cursor (ANI)

ANI is an animated cursor (animated mouse pointer). This file format is used for reading and storing Windows Animated Cursors. The LEADTOOLS filter does not support transparency information within these files.

LEAD supports loading and saving multi-page files in this format. Multipage ANI files will have a cursor as each page.

The file constants associated with this file format are:

WIC Codec CLSID	WIC Codec Subformat	RasterImageViewer.Save File Constant	Read Support	Write Support	Description
CLSID_WICLeadAniEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatAni	Ani	1, 4, 8, 24 BPP	1, 4, 8, 24 BPP	[119] Windows Animated Cursor.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Ani.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Platforms: .NET 2/3, .NET 4