animated-gif

Disabling GIF animation in HTML

Is there any way, in HTML, to include an animated GIF in an <img> tag, but automatically tell the GIF to not animate? I realize that the user can stop animation by pressing ESC or clicking Stop, but I want the GIFs not to animate at all. I only want to do this on one specific page, and making separate non-animated versions of the (1500...

Animated gif file not working in IE7

I'm learning Ajax from Sams Teach Yourself Ajax,Javascript and Php All in One and testing an example which diplays the server time OK but does not show a busy gif image. In fact all I get is the red cross box where the file should be Windows Picture and Fax Viewer displays the moving gif file OK so what am I doing wrong? I have no prior ...

How to extract frame timing information from animated GIF?

This is brought on by a previous question. Apparently ImageList doesn't support animated GIFs, so I'm stuck animating it myself. I know how to extract the frames, but does anyone know how to extract the frame timing information from an animated GIF? ...

how to create an animated gif in .net

Hi, Does anyone know how to create an animated gif using c#? Ideally I would have some control over the color reduction used. Is using imagemagick (as an external started process) the best choice? thanks! ...

How can I make an animated GIF with the iPhone SDK?

Animated GIFs are awesome. Does anyone know how to create and save them using the technologies available to the iPhone? ...

Android animated GIF (Cupcake)

I've used animated GIFs in Android pre cupcake however my old code no longer works. To be exact: Movie.decodeStream Always returns null... Does anyone have any workarounds/fixes to play animated GIFs? ...

Making animated gifs using R

Duplicate Creating a Movie from a Series of Plots in R Does anyone have any tips regarding making animated GIFs in R? I'm trying to make some time lapse map GIFs. ...

GIF manipulation in vb.net

Is it possible, without an external code library, to separate a .gif file into its individual frames, and conversely, to assemble a group of images into one? I have spent a while playing with the System.Drawing namespace, and cannot seem to figure out how. Also, I cannot figure out what to pass as a parameter for GetFrameCount. I do no...

JQuery global loading animation

Is there a way to attach a loading gif, using Jquery, anytime any image on my site within a certain div is loading? I would like for it to be a global function, the only way I can seem to figure to do this is using jquery to call a certain link, and then load the loading.gif but that won't work in my situation… Index HTML: <div id="con...

Internet Explorer, Loading Bar, 5.57MB page

I have a sorta unique question. There is a web application which takes 5.57mbs of loading. I want a Loading Bar or Ajax Spinner on there that animates so they know things are progressing along during the ~10-20 seconds load time. Most is images, a lot of JS here too. The problem here is this, Firefox correctly threads everything so ...

How to record screen and save as gif animation?

Is there such a software? ...

Techniques to keep animated gifs "animating" during periods of high load?

Hi, In situations where a browser is under intense load I find that animated gifs, for example a throbber, will stop animating until the load subsides. This behaviour seem to be consistent across the browsers I've tried (Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, ...). Am wondering if there are any techniques I can use to ensure that animation conti...

IE7/IE8 and frozen animated gifs

I'm quite sure this is an old problem. This is how i render my animated gif: <img id='loading' alt='loading' style="display: none; position: relative; left:10px; top:2px;" src="<%= Url.Image("loading.gif") %>" /> This is how I'm desperately trying to show it at the moment: showLoading: function(gifId, butId) { v...

Animated GIFs in Lotus Notes

I have built a HTML email newsletter containing an animated GIF Christmas Ecard which is being sent to all employees of a company who exclusively use Lotus Notes. The problem I'm having is that they are receiving the email fine, but the GIF isn't animating. Any idea if there's a way to get this working? ...

How to display animated gif during long asynchronous operation?

I have a Winforms app in C# that calls calls a method asynchronously and uses a callback. I would like to display an animated gif to let the end user know that work is being done. I would like to have the animated gif hover over the center of the form. How can I do this? Update: Thanks. I guess the step I was missing was to use a Pict...

Animated gif or flash (or other) for small animated element on website?

I am redesigning a site, and the client is set on keeping a small looping Flash animation that is on the current version. They have asked if it would be better to replace it with an animated GIF version or to keep the current version, and I don't know the answer (apart from get rid of it!). Is either method preferred? ...

Animated gif not animating on submit

I have a form where the submit function takes several minutes. I'd like to display an animated gif while the submit is cranking. The code below shows the gif, but it doesn't move. What can I do to get it going? <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $("#submit").click(function() { $("#wait").show(); ...

PHP - Create simple animated GIF from two JPEG images?

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to generate an animated GIF from two different JPEG files, displaying one image for x seconds then the other, and so on..? Any advice appreciated. Thanks. ...

Animation of NSImage gets lost after archiving it with NSKeyedArchiver

Following situation: I have an instance of my NSObject sublcassed object. One of it's properties is a NSImage. After instanciating the object I convert it with NSKeyedArchiver to data, send it over the network, unarchive it with NSKeyedUnarchiver and display the image in a NSImageView (setAnimates: YES). Until here there are no problems...

controlling gifs with javascript

Hi, Is it possible to use javascript to control which frame of a gif image is showing / stop animation. I want to be able to load a gif with several frames and only show one of them. I know I could do it with lots of seperate images, but if I can do what i want with a gif, it will only be one file to worry about. Thanks, Logan ...