animated-gif

JavaScript: GIF file loses animation

I am trying to set a hidden layer (containing animated GIFs) visible. Initially, the layer is hidden using display: none; However, when I try to show the layer using javascript: document.getElementById('loading_layer').style.display = 'block'; the layer is displayed, but the images inside it are no longer animated. What could be th...

Are there any technical problems using an animated GIF for a web site’s favicon instead of an actual .ico file?

When putting a favicon on your site, you can apparently use an animated gif, just by changing the gif file’s extension to .ico. http://www.k-director.com/blog/how-to-add-an-animated-faviconico/ Have you encountered any problems doing this? (Aside from users being driven mad by some stupid little blinking favicon.) Have you seen a br...

Prevent image cropping when making sprites from gif

Hey guys I've tried several tools (imagemagic, gif2png, Nconverter) to extract frames to make sprites from a .gif image that i have. I get the .pngs just fine, but they'r not the same size, some are 50x65 some 43x65 some 50x70, Which really screws any attempts at a descent animation. So is there a way to prevent this cropping or program...

Animated Image in Win32

Hello. How can i put an animated GIF to my dialog in my native Win32 application? I have a loading indicator, and a loading process. Thanks :-) ...

does a windows application in C# support gif annimation ?

Is this possible ? if yes how ? I am creating a windows application, which makes multiple web queries. I want the interface to have a loading symbol, so that the user doesn't feel that the screen has frozen. Thank you. ...

How to make animated GIFs work from Android WebView

Animated GIF images rendered by Android's WebView do not seem to animate. Has anyone figured out how to make them work? I'm testing on an N1 with 2.1-u1. None of the web settings available seem applicable. ...

ASP.NET: How to check if an image is a GIF, specifically images with changed extensions

I've taken over work for the custom forums that a previous developer created at my job, and came across a minor bug. We don't allow animated GIFs as avatars in the forums. However, if someone were to take an animated GIF, rename it to imagename.jpeg, and then upload it, the forums will show the image as being animated. It's a very o...

Computer Vision Website Image Slideshow help

Hi, I'm making an online display of the output of a computer vision algorithm. After running the algorithm I am left with a folder of about 1000 16 bit .tiff files. I need to put those on the website in a list for so that the researchers can click through and find the list. Also there needs to be an image frame with an "animated gif" ...

Browser: Continue gif animation after escape is pressed

Firefox (and other browsers i believe) stop gif animation when you click the Stop button or invoke it via the Escape key. I have a text input that on change makes ajax requests to update other elements. As part of this ajaxyness i have an animated gif to show feedback. I also trap the escape key press in this input so as to clear the te...

Getting animated gif data in c or c++

I'm trying to get the frames (properly decoded) and the frames delay times from an animated gif. I've opened up the code to gifsicle and have also tried lungif but I'm not accustomed to c code and I'm having a difficult time following the logic. I've also tried other examples and I've gotten one to work but it didn't do the proper LZW ...

Can you join GIFs and/or Animated GIFs into a single Animated GIF?

Hey everyone, Does anyone know if it's possible to join several gifs or animated gifs into one animated gif (ie. concat the frames together into one master animated gif)? I'd like to have some server side function to do this. The file will be identical in dimensions, mode etc, just their content will differ. Thanks! ...

Is it possible to play GIF format in Android?

I want to add play gif format to my android app. Could this be done, and how would I do it? ...

Restart an animated GIF from JavaScript without reloading the image

I am creating a slideshow of animations using animated GIFs. I'm crossfading from one animation to the next. The problem is: the only way I have discovered to ensure that the GIF starts animating from the first frame is to reload it each time it's shown. The GIFs are 200KB or so each, which is way too much bandwidth for a continuous slid...

Animated gif to avi on linux

Is there any way to convert an animated gif to a video format (e.g. .avi), on linux? p.s. i have already tried ffmpeg's ffmpeg -i thegif.gif thevideo.avi but all i get is the first image of the video. ...

Animated GIF works in Design view of VS2010, but has a runtime error?

I have been trying to get Mike Eshva's code from his answer about Animated Gifs to work, from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210922/how-do-i-get-an-animated-gif-to-work-in-wpf/1660225#1660225 Restated here (including translated comments): using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; u...

Long process blocks waiting icon render in ExtJS

The feature I'm implementing is not a really required, so I won't include an extra library of threads just for that. But if someone knows a workaround I will appreciate it. So I have a grid of 256 rows and 3 columns; one those columns is a checkboxColumn (similar to the one used here). But that checkboxColumn plugin has being modified t...

jQuery show loading div for each thumbnail until loaded

I have a page with 50 thumbnails that load once a user enters the site. I am looking at creating a loading... div or possibly make use of an animated gif to display that the thumbnail image is still loading, and then switch to the image once loaded. What is the best option to use, pure JS or jQuery and how would one approach something ...

How to extract a given frame from a .gif animation in Python

I'm trying to figure out how to extract a given frame from an animated-gif, possibly in PIL, in Python. I'm not able to easily dig this up, and I'm guessing it would take some knowledge of the gif format, something that is not readily understandable to me. Is there any straightforward way to accomplish this? Do I need to do some custom p...

[Android 1.6]How to display GIF animation on Webview

Hi all, i have problem when display GIF Animation in webview, anyone can recommend solution for this problem. Thanks. ...

Android - Display Animated gif

Hi! I want to display animated gifs in my aplication. As I found out the hard way Android doesn't support animated gifs natively. However it can display animations using AnimationDrawable: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#frame-animation The example uses animation saved as frames in application resou...