Animated Gifs

Animated Gifs are very common on Internet. You can get thousands of gifs just browsing the net or buying a not expensive clipart CD.
You can work with ANIGIFS like with any other objects û grouping them, moving them in layers, etc.

Experiment with the settings!
This is not all what you can do with the anigif!

Note : Anigifs takes more CPU than static pictures. You can use Anigifs in layers - be careful - the alpha transparent bitmaps takes more time to redraw - if you overlap Anigif and some Alpha transparent bitmaps - the gif will slow down.
Don't try to put too much on one page ! The anigifs are great for highlighting something special.

Animated Gif settings dialog:

Click on an item to get more information:

• Label

  String represents the new object.

• Info

  Frames Number of frames in the gif (gif must have more than 1 frame to be animated) Disposal There are few types of animated gifs using different optimization û the number bigger than 0 shows the gif is using one of the optimization (keeping the first frame and showing only differences, keeping the prev. frame à)

• Speed

  Frame rate The rate in ms (the time between the frames) , it is the rate of first frame û other frames can have different rate Adjust Adjust the frame rate by percent (200% 2-times slower). Note: Speeding up the animation doesnÆt have to have a desired effect all the time. Example: you have Frame rate 10 ms, you adjust the speed 50% (5 ms). No effect ! The 5 ms is not enough for the computer to redraw the frame. (Even the 10 ms is not enough!)

Advanced options:

• Transparency

  Automatic - Force You can choose how to create transparency in your image. Note - this goes beyond standard gif transparency, you can turn non-transparent gifs to transparent by forcing the transparent color.

• Auto Play

  The gif will start playing as soon as it will be visible

• Loop

  The gif will play in loop

• After Last Frame

  this works only if Loop is not selected. You can choose what to do when animation will reach its last frame. It could hide the object or run a script.

If you Show anigif in your actions - anigif start animate from the first page, if you Hide it, it disappears.
In script, you can control more with next three GIF commands.