John Pollock — Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:59:00 +0000

I see what you mean, that could take a while to load.

If there is a way to pull out a frame, I don't know it but I'll keep an eye out in case I see something like that or another workable solution.

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Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:48:00 +0000

Thanx John, thats the thing I was looking for.

My problem is I have to do these Rollovers on 10 images with each 12 frames. The simple animated gifs have only 11k; thats fine for the customer, but I guess having a total of 120 images loaded would be a little too much.

Could you possibly use a JavaScript to rip a frame off an animated gif? I know this would be really complicated.

Thanx,

Malte

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John Pollock — Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:32:00 +0000

You could use the setTimeout function to runback through and show a series of images. If you had the right images, it would appear to be a morph or an animation.

I put up a sample page of this idea, it runs through a series of images on the mouseover (though since the images I have aren't in a visual sequence it doesn't look like a morph, though with the right series of images it could.

The URL:
http://www.pageresource.com/zzztest/testgokewl.htm

The transitions go at 1 second intervals in the sample, you can speed it up by changing the time in the setTimeout function.

If this is the type of script you could use I may well write a tutorial on how to use it at my site.

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Wed, 11 Aug 1999 01:37:00 +0000

Jim, I dont think not to preload would be an option for me.

I have an example for what I want:
http://www.aral.de/intro.htm.

There is an image that morphs onMouseOver. I'm not sure I understand perfectly what they are doing but I think its not really an animated gif, but animation done with JavaScript.

I could copy the code from the Aral homepage, but I would like to have some tutorial that covers the subject.

Later,

Malte

Jim Shilt — Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:37:00 +0000

Hi Malte,

You have to find a script that doesn't preload images. You can find an example (I use this script quite often) at Professional Web Design. The url is http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/tutor/buttons/index4.html. By the way this guy wrote the tutorials that I used when I first started writing html.

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Mon, 09 Aug 1999 23:46:00 +0000

What I want is that the animated gif is only played once upon every mouse over replacing a normal static gif. I think a animated gif with a sigle loop would only work once.

You have to do something comlicated with timeouts, etc. Its pretty complicated JavaScript code.

Hope its clear now. I'm a little drunk, so it might now be.

Later,

Malte

JP Stones — Mon, 09 Aug 1999 21:32:00 +0000

Not sure exactly what you want here that is complicated. I would suggest a simple mouseover script using the ani gifs instead of the normal gifs...however as I know you are not a newbie I can only assume that I have missed the point
Please explain.
JP

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elara — Mon, 09 Aug 1999 21:15:00 +0000

Hi,
I believe it would be the same as creating basic mouse over scripts if you have the gif's animated using an animator.