GIF Animation

[happytc]

Do you have any GIF that it doesn't work for?

Another animated GIF doesnot work : http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2647/nagze5yw_gif.htm

But this gif can be shown using Irfanview or any other image viewers: ACDSee, XnView...

Using the example on post #1, only blank! see following screenshot

Edited September 14, 2011 by happytc

[UEZ]

I can see the animation properly!

Br,

UEZ

[happytc]

I can see the animation properly!

Br,

UEZ

What's your operation system?

My system is WinXP-SP3

[UEZ]

Tested on Win7 x64 and I can see the animation. On my vm WinXP no animation can be seen!

Br,

UEZ

[taietel]

Your gif looks like it has only one frame, according to this:

I'm on XP sp3.

[happytc]

Your gif looks like it has only one frame, according to this:

I'm on XP sp3.

No, you got wrong info, this GIF file has 5 frames, see: http://min.us/mK6n4rrMr

[taietel]

It's XP's fault. Try to see the properties of that image and I'm sure that you will get the same results (on XP sp3). I don't know why XP do that... Regarding XP, I had some problems when tried to clone an image in XP; in Windows 7 was OK, but in XP the handle was 0. Solved by locking pixels.

[happytc]

is there two types of animation GIF?

http://minus.com/moqEeLR7t

bb.gif was converted by Ulead_Gif software from aa.gif

then bb.gif worked.

[happytc]

It's XP's fault. Try to see the properties of that image and I'm sure that you will get the same results (on XP sp3). I don't know why XP do that... Regarding XP, I had some problems when tried to clone an image in XP; in Windows 7 was OK, but in XP the handle was 0. Solved by locking pixels.

Yes, I have see the properties of that image through clicking right key. It's only one frame.

But why all image viewers can show the animation rightly? There's some method to deal with it for sure in XP

Edited September 14, 2011 by happytc

[BrewManNH]

I tried viewing that image in Windows 7 and couldn't see the animation, on my XP machine I can see it, but only in the web browser not when I save it to the machine. So, I'm not so sure it's an XP problem.

[trancexx]

Anyway, I'm using GDIP to process GIFs. If the GIF is not supported by this engine then... nothing.

[Belini]

Excellent UDF @ Trancexx, will be very helpful to me.

[Syed23]

Hi,

This is an awesome UDF which helps me in most situations. Is there anyway to HIDE and SHOW the GIF process?

Edited June 10, 2012 by Syed23

[Kyan]

thanks trancexx

nice UDF, don't need to use GDI+ and Load_BMP_From_Mem() to load my binary images

[KaFu]

^{Really nice UDF .}

^{In the UDF itself there are two occurences where}

^{Local $aOut = [0, 0] ; preset output}

^{should be}

^{Local $aOut[2] = [0, 0] ; preset output}

[ludoo]

Hi,

thank you for sharing

Question this UDF allows you to display an animated gif in a window and control it?

I get an error when I run an example:

here is the example:

; Pass GIF File path/name
_GUICtrlCreateGIF("wait.gif", "", 10, 10)

Here is the error:

C:Program Files (x86)AutoIt3IncludeGIFAnimation.au3(172,16) : ERROR: syntax error

Local $aOut = [

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(51,40) : ERROR: _GIF_GetGIFAssoc(): undefined function.

Local $pGIF = _GIF_GetGIFAssoc($iGIFId)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(63,32) : ERROR: _GIF_ResumeThread(): undefined function.

_GIF_ResumeThread($hGIFThread)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(67,39) : ERROR: _GIF_WaitForSingleObject(): undefined function.

_GIF_WaitForSingleObject($hGIFThread)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(68,31) : ERROR: _GIF_CloseHandle(): undefined function.

_GIF_CloseHandle($hGIFThread)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(72,54) : ERROR: _GIF_MemGlobalFree(): undefined function.

If $pCodeBuffer Then _GIF_MemGlobalFree($pCodeBuffer)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(75,56) : ERROR: _GIF_ImageList_Destroy(): undefined function.

If $hImageList Then _GIF_ImageList_Destroy($hImageList)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\GIFAnimation.au3(79,54) : ERROR: _GIF_DeleteObject(): undefined function.

_GIF_DeleteObject(GUICtrlSendMsg($iGIFId, 370, 0, 0))

thank you for your help Edited October 18, 2012 by ludoo

[trancexx]

You have the answer one post above yours.

It's the syntax for the new version of AutoIt. I forgot that it's not released publicly.

[ludoo]

ok , after changing the code, I get the same error message.

I use autoit Version 3.3.8.1

ok, this is good , , more error

Edited October 19, 2012 by ludoo

[KaFu]

Hi Lady ,

one question regarding the great UDF. At the end of the _GUICtrlCreateGIF() function you make this call:

_GIF_InvalidateRect(_GIF_GetParent($hControl))

This caused my parent window to flicker when I used _GUICtrlSetGIF() to replace a GIF. When I commented it out, for me everything still looks good, so is this call really necessary?

Regards

[trancexx]

Hi Lady ,

one question regarding the great UDF. At the end of the _GUICtrlCreateGIF() function you make this call:

_GIF_InvalidateRect(_GIF_GetParent($hControl))

This caused my parent window to flicker when I used _GUICtrlSetGIF() to replace a GIF. When I commented it out, for me everything still looks good, so is this call really necessary?

Regards

Hey Mister. No it's not necessary.

I have version of this UDF with all possible explanations made during the original development but it's on some old drive that I don't use any more. I remember having some reason for that line of code, but I'm sure it was nothing super important.