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Are there any other image file formats supported by LiveCode that do GIF-like multiple frame animations?

We're dying with the way our GIFs are rendering inside LiveCode. Can anyone offer any alternatives?

If you pull the intact frames out into separate files using a gif editor you can set the icon of a transparent button to the sequence of images using code.

EDIT: If you're using convert to create your optimized gifs you might try the -coalesce switch when converting.

Here is a button with your example gif broken apart into pngs (just a quick test, only 1 frame retained transparency so some work would be required)

Grab the stack here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11957935/gifbyframes.livecode If you don't have 5.5 and can't open the stack let me know and i'll save it as legacy.

Frank,

please only ONE thread per problem, thanks!
Will delete the other thread.


Best

Klaus