Topic: Is there a problem loading GIFs?
I'm working on a widget that loads weather maps from around the internet. I adapted the code from ChumbySpy, since that already cycles through a bunch of camera images.
I'm having a weird problem: every time it loads a GIF image, the RAM usages inches up about .1 meg, and doesn't drop back down. The strange thing is this doesn't happen when I load JPGs.
If I watch it with top I can see the RAM use inching up, until eventually things crash.
Can anyone think of a reason for this?
Source code is here if anyone's curious: http://gizmoware.net/chumby/WeatherVane.zip There's a couple of jpgs at the top of the cameras list, if I swap the cameras out for those everything works just fine. If I introduce even one gif, the RAM increases every time it hits that gif.