Threaded anim GIFs?

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Richard Gaskin  wrote:

> I've noticed that animated GIFs only animate while the engine is idle --
> anyone know a trick to get them to continue animating while the engine
> is busy with a script?
> 
> I'd like to use an anim GIF as part of a progress dialog, but I imagine
> the engine could do a more efficient job than my scripts of changing
> frames if there was a built-in capability of doing so without having to
> explicitely tell it each time.

Try placing a few "wait 2 milliseconds with messages" lines in your
processing script.  It may slow down your script a few milliseconds but this
is the only way I could find to get an animated GIF to run.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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