Problems with OS3.9 AnimatedIcons

[Minuous]

All the GIFs I have tried to use, which work perfectly through all the browsers I have tested, don't work properly with AnimatedIcon; the graphics are corrupted.

Are only *some* types of GIF anim supported, perhaps? I could hardly find any docs about this program...

[Kent]

If I remember correctly the gif animations are actually really long images similar to the transition images found in the Amiga browsers.  To get the AnimatedIcon thing to work, you have to go into the image and seperate each of the frames and join them into one long (read wide) image and set the cell sizes accordingly before it will work.

The end of it all, it's not all that's cracked up to be.  It would have been nice if the tool was able to load normal gif animations.  I'm hoping OS4 will have a decent gif datatype complete with transparent images and animations.  Don't think it will happen but there's always hope.

:pint:

[Thomas]

AnimatedIcon can read both, large pictures with the animation frames next to each other, while the real picture dimensions must be give in the tooltypes, and also real gif anims.

The AmigaOS 3.9 GIF datatype can of course read GIF pictures and it presents GIF animations to the application a a multi-image file. So programs like AnimatedIcon can extract each animation frame from the file and display it.

AnimatedIcon ony works with the original AmigaOS 3.9 GIF datatype. There is a GIFANIM datatype on Aminet that presents GIF animations as real animations. This does not work with AnimatedIcon or any other picture viewer.

I also saw that some optimised GIF anims are corrupted by the GIF datatype. But most animations work though.

Bye,
Thomas

[Agafaster]

well I tried it with an animated gif advert ;-) , and it worked fine.

see Tomas above for an explanation which, well, it figures, really !

/edit: I think it basically means you need to install a GIF datatype. :-D

[BouncingAyatollah]

I seem to remember AnimatedIcons were broken somehow in 3.9 and fixed in BoingBag #1

Of course if you have installed this don't read the above :-)