Animated GIFs don't animate
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From: David Ching on 16 Sep 2006 10:51 Hello, If user has disabled "play animations in web pages" in the Control Panel, Internet Options, Advanced tab, then any animated .gif images I display in my Web Browser Control (actually it's an MFC CDHtmlDialog) don't animate. Is there a way I can override the user's IE setting and get my Web Browser Control to animate the gifs? To initialize the dialog, I'm already calling: DOCHOSTUIINFO info; info.cbSize = sizeof(info); GetHostInfo (&info); SetHostFlags (info.dwFlags | DOCHOSTUIFLAG_DIALOG | DOCHOSTUIFLAG_THEME | DOCHOSTUIFLAG_SCROLL_NO); Thanks, David
From: .rhavin grobert on 16 Sep 2006 14:15 David Ching wrote: > Is there a way I can override the user's IE setting and get my Web Browser > Control to animate the gifs? i hope there is none, because when i tell my system: "Don't animate!" i want my system to do as i told ;-)
From: David Ching on 16 Sep 2006 16:05 ".rhavin grobert" <clqrq(a)yahoo.de> wrote in message news:1158430550.759462.169660(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > i hope there is none, because when i tell my system: "Don't animate!" i > want my system to do as i told ;-) > Ah, but here is the rub. Microsoft wants us to reuse their web browser in our apps because it makes IE all the more indispensible. But if I'm going to, then I, as the programmer, need to be able to animate my .gif's. In my case, the user's setting is preventing my animated gif of a progress control from animating, making it look like the app got stuck. This is entirely unacceptable. In this case, it is I, the programmer, who should get to decide that in my HTML app, I want my animated gif to animate. If it doesn't, my app appears broken. And then I won't use Microsoft's web browser control because it doesn't fulfill my needs. Then their goal of IE everywhere is broken. So it is in their best interest to give me some control over this. As it was, I had to implement a timer routine and change the gif image myself. It is a pain, and I wouldn't do it that way, except we are releasing the Release Candidate tonight. Thanks, David
From: Rob ^_^ on 16 Sep 2006 18:50 Hi David, You can replace your animated gifs with animated sprites, but then again you need scripting to be enabled on the client. Most online games use animated sprites i/o gifs. Regards. "David Ching" <dc(a)remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message news:5OYOg.2582$e66.1827(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > ".rhavin grobert" <clqrq(a)yahoo.de> wrote in message > news:1158430550.759462.169660(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... >> i hope there is none, because when i tell my system: "Don't animate!" i >> want my system to do as i told ;-) >> > > Ah, but here is the rub. Microsoft wants us to reuse their web browser in > our apps because it makes IE all the more indispensible. But if I'm going > to, then I, as the programmer, need to be able to animate my .gif's. In > my case, the user's setting is preventing my animated gif of a progress > control from animating, making it look like the app got stuck. This is > entirely unacceptable. In this case, it is I, the programmer, who should > get to decide that in my HTML app, I want my animated gif to animate. If > it doesn't, my app appears broken. And then I won't use Microsoft's web > browser control because it doesn't fulfill my needs. Then their goal of > IE everywhere is broken. So it is in their best interest to give me some > control over this. > > As it was, I had to implement a timer routine and change the gif image > myself. It is a pain, and I wouldn't do it that way, except we are > releasing the Release Candidate tonight. > > Thanks, > David > >
From: .rhavin grobert on 16 Sep 2006 21:38
David Ching wrote: > In this case, it is I, the programmer, who should get to > decide that in my HTML app, I want my animated gif to animate. I really understand your position, but when i tell MY system to not animate gifs in HTML context, i want MY system to do as I told, not as the programmer of the application running on MY system intendet. If you want to show me a progress, use a progress-control. An animated gif without programm-defined progress-change is just an optical gimmic that some users DONT WANT. Thats why i really hope that what you want to do is impossible. |