Animated GIF

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Sep 12 23:45:38 EDT 2010


On 9/11/10 8:22 PM, edward cawley wrote:
> II have an application which uses several animated Gif's that was
> running with no problems. I had a button which went to a test card. I
> modified the stack to drop the test button. The gif on that card had an
> icon for the button. I used pixen to erase the icon image from Gif. The
> edited Animated Gif run fine in Quicktime as does the original Animated
> Gif. If I replace the original gif with the edited gif, using the same
> file name the Gif image shows up but does not animate. If I replace it
> with the original one it works fine. Any ideas whats wrong?

I've forgotten what they call the technique, but some gif editors only 
change the parts of each frame that are different from surrounding 
frames. Rev can't show those. Each frame has to be a complete image. If 
the editor you used saved the gif as partial images, then it won't work.

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