When is a GIF Finished Playing?

[Ray]

Thanks Scott, but if you've set the RepeatCount to more than 1 and it's 
looping through the frames, twice for example, isn't there a possibility 
you'll get the CurrentFrame the same as the FrameCount too early?

On 2/10/2016 2:25 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> I haven't done this in a long time, but in theory you should be able to
> compare the currentFrame of the GIF with the frameCount.
>
>   if the currentFrame of img "myGif" = the frameCount of img "myGif" then
> answer "It's done"
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
> On 2/10/16, 10:51 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ray"
> <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know of an easy way to tell whether a GIF file is playing
>> or not?
>>
>> If possible I'd like to avoid trying to write something involved using
>> the CurrentFrame and FrameCount properties.  I'm not even sure how that
>> would be done.
>>
>> I'd rather have something like the sound() function, as in:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>      set the repeatCount of img myGif to 10
>>      repeat while gif(myImg) is not "done"
>>      end repeat
>>      answer "It's done!"
>> end mouseUp
>>
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