Animated GIF in JTabbedPane - repaint madness!

Loading and animated GIF into the icon for a JTabbedPAne just works, but it causes the paintComponent method on the main part of the panel to be called repeatedly. Anyway to distinguish between the two areas? The icon repaints automatically but I don't want to have to repaint the rest of the panel unnecessarily.

I've run into the same problem simon, the only way I came over this was to do my own animation for the gif. Bit of a bother really. Anyone have any other solutions?

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Animated Gif Repaint

I knew I was going to end up here eventually, stupid animated gifs.
First of all, I get weird drawing artifacts on an animated gif on jkd 1.5, I upped this to 1.6 and everything is cool with displaying the gif. It could be because I'm running JBuilder in a XP VM. I don't really care how to fix this, or if its even fixable, I'm just pointing it out.
I have an animated gif in an imageicon. The program is hangman, and the gif shows a stick figure walking up onto the podium to get hung. I would like to play the gif once, every time the "New Game" button is clicked. I have tried a variety of things to do so, including JLabel1.repaint(); calling the label again, etc, etc. I'll try to post the relevant bits of my code.
public class HangFrame
    extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
public HangFrame()
    try {
      jbInit();
    catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
}jbinit calls the placement of all the items.
    jLabel1.setBounds(new Rectangle(19, 57, 550, 400));
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    if (e.getSource() == start) {
      start();
....'start' is my name for the button that reads "New Game".
The start method contains:
ImageIcon maingif = new ImageIcon( (ClassLoader.getSystemResource(
        "hang1.gif")));
     jLabel1.setIcon(maingif);
//I've been trying different stuff right here, like repaint.The image displays correctly, and runs once (per the setting I gave it in flash, or thats how java does it).
I've searched extensively (seems I got lucky by just managing to get it to display once :D). I saw that I might have to flush the image or something like that, but I'm not really sure what that means. I've never had any experience with the graphics and paint component, most of the work we do in class is console and algorithm stuff. I got bored over break and made my hangman into a swing app. I'd appreciate any help.
Oh, and sorry if this should be in the swing subforum, I figured my issue was too basic for it.
Edited by: rpk5000 on Dec 31, 2007 8:52 AM

rpk5000 wrote:
This is where you're wrong. Dipshits like you post **** like this all the time when it's readily available information that can be searched for WITHOUT >hosing up our forums.Great, give me a link, or even a search term to use on google or these forums. Before you give me search terms, you might want to actually check and make sure the answer is somewhere there...are you out of your freakin mind?!?!?!
go to google and type "java gif animation"
you think you're the first person to want to do this?!?!
moreover, search the forums here
you think you're the first person to ask for this here?!?!
You would think "repainting an imageicon animated gif java" would give a page that has the answer on it within the first 10 results but....
I'm looking for a page that simply says, take your imageicon and call.... (repaint();) or whatever to make it run one more time.Did you even read the API for ImageIcon! It took me 2 seconds to find the information for animating gifs as imageicons.
Well Java just sucks now doesn't it. Stop using animated gifs and Java since they suck. There, problem solved!I like Java a lot, I'm just saying, in certain instances it seems to fall short.No, YOU fall short. I found the solution in 3 seconds.
This is a "New to Java" subforum, if you can't handle helping people in a pleasant manner, that shows you respect the other person, what do you think people will think of you and java. If I spent more time on forums like this, and was looking at which language to try, I doubt I would pick java.I don't care what you think of me OR Java. I'm tired of noobs wasting forum resources with this crap. Once I was new to everything, but I went to the library and when the internet came along i learned how to search it!
Critical thinking people. Don't we teach this in schools any more?!
When it becomes an Internet joke (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx) about how bad the sun forums are, well, you really need to reconsider what you want to do with your life.
LMAO! You are the daily WTF!
Edited by: wpafbuser1 on Dec 31, 2007 1:52 PM

Exporting flash video made with swift 3d to animated gif help

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I am using CS4 and when I go to publish the gif works in the html document. But when I export to an animated gif it is still a still picture.
I have also tried to export to a quicktime file and it's is a still picture there too and distorted.
Can anyone help me out? Should exporting to png or gif sequence work as well?

turns out the swift 3d tutorial has you put the animation in a single keyframe within layer one.
so only one frame is shown or created. there go it stays static
now if someone could help me wiht resizing a gif for fireworks i would be the happest person

Using an Animated GIF/JPEGs Effectively

I have an animated GIF in an applet with around 200 frames, moving at a speed of 6 frames per second. However, when just drawing it in paint(), it looks extremely messy with the flashing. Then I tried another tack, and exported the gif as 200 jpeg files and used double buffering to draw it in a JPanel with the following code:
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deltacoder, I tried what you suggested in the code below, to keep the images inside an array of 20 and to rotate them as soon as the image is displayed.
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 if (currentImage < (numImages-21))
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Load/import images into layers to create animated gif in PE4

I'm trying to make an animated gif using Photoshop Elements 4.0.
I have numerous images (photos) that I need to insert into separate frames of one image.
(photo1, photo2 ..... photo10 - all combined in layers to create the frames of the animated gif)
I can open each photo separately, copy it, go the the animated gif image, create a new layer, and paste the image into the layer to create a frame in the animated gif. This is very time consuming.
Does Elements 4.0 allow for just opening/importing the separate images (photos) into the layers (frames) of the gif direclty? I remember having software that came with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 in 2000 that made this simple and straight forward.

We are not the right people to ask. The Touch forum (for tablet) is at
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There's a long list f video tutorials here, but I can't see anything about animation
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How can I make a transparent animated gif?

I'm using CS2. I have an animated gif that I want to take the black background out of so that the animated part of it is all that remains.
Here is a link to the image:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/tragicmike/random/Tesseract.gif
I basically want to remove all of the black background from the image so that the animated tesseract is all that remains. I know how to open the gif to expose the layers using ImaegeReady, then edit them in PhotoShop. But when I made the black areas of each layer transparent (by selecting the RGB channel, inverting the selection, and hitting delete), saved a copy, and tried viewing it, it seems to just display all of the transparent layers constantly instead of cycling through them.
Can someone please help me figure out how to make an animated gif with a transparent background? If I lose some of the black areas of the animated part (since they seem to get deleted when I remove all of the black background) it's no big deal. I just need to know how to do this so that it plays correctly.
Thank you!!!
Mike

>
"I have to wonder why the black background was included on every frame of the moving shape."
 
 Well, George...the only reason I can think of is because it's an animated GIF, and GIFs only support one layer.
 
 Whatever application it was created in should have been able to render it out with a transparent BG. But I suppose the creator had his/her reasons for going with the black BG.
 
 (Full disclosure: I ran across
<s>that same</s> a similar animation back in December, and the version I grabbed only had the black showing through the inside of the tesseract. I opened it in ImageReady and

added
 a black BG so the edges didn't look jaggedy.)
 
 
<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1FgHXbj4UpXYtUVrbeah7sbqQXDR40" /></a>
<img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1FgHXbj4UpXYtUVrbeah7sbqQXDR40_thumb.gif" border="0" />

Disabled JMenuItem doesn show animated gif

Hi there
I would like to have a popup menu with actions that are enabled after they have finished with some background task taking some time. Basically this works fine for the enabling action on a shown popup. However, adding an animated gif as the icon or disabled icon does not show it in disabled state. In enabled state it works perfect. Please have a try with the sample code. You should see the disabled item for 2 secs and the icon is not showing up. After being enabled, it does. Invoking the menu again shows the animated gif in its last state left, but not moving any more.
I guess, repaints are not done appropriately in disabled state... Any ideas how to solve that would be highly appreciated :-)
Actually I used the icon at http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/indicators/pascal_germroth/indicator.white.gif
Cheers
Daniel
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Keynote 3: Transparent Animated GIF Problems

I've been trying to get an animated GIF with a transparent background to run in Keynote, but it's giving some disastrous results.
I produce the animation by rendering the frames as PNG (with alpha channel) in MegaPOV 1.2.1. Then I use the convert utility from ImageMagick 6.2.9 to make them into an animated GIF.
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Problem 1 is also present if I open the GIF in Preview (is that supposed to be the correct behavior of an animated GIF?). Problem 2 seems to be Keynote-specific.
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iMac 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

MegaPOV doesn't have a GIF output option. The choices are PNG, Targa, PPM, and hdr (not familiar with that last one). I don't know if PPM even has alpha-capability.
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If I didn't know how to change the default white background in the program, I couldn't tell whether problem (2) occurred, since the movie made with Gimp had a white background in Keynote.
Using ImageMagick 6.2.9 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari 2.0.4 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview 3.0.9 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox 2.0.0.3 : (1)
* viewing with Keynote 3.0.2 : (1), (2) -- alpha goes red
Using Gimp 2.2.11 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox : (1)
* viewing with Keynote : (1), (2) -- alpha goes white
I only converted the first few frames using Gimp, since I was doing it by hand.
All of this makes me wonder whether I'm dreaming the impossible, since problem (1) is universally present. It also makes me pretty sure that problem (2) is Keynote-specific.
If there are any other tools that will convert/animate GIFs on a modern Mac, I'd love to hear about them. My UNIX-y tools seem to be failing me here. The Mac tools I remember from "back in the day" -- GIFBuilder and GIFConverter -- seem to have been abandoned around the beginning of Mac OS X. GIFBuilder won't even load my files, and GIFConverter still lacks alpha support in PNG.

My animated gif keeps pausing in captivate and flash

Hi guys, thanks for your help.
I made an animated gif in Photoshop CS4 and inserted it as an animation into captivate 6. The animation works (I played it several times by opening it with internet explorer and safari). But when I open it in Captivate the animation goes black for a split second-several times, before it reappears-several times. It gives it almost a "reloading" or pause look when I play it. The same in flash, but in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional the timeline shows black dots once in a while, as you can see in the screen shot below.
See those black dots? I will insert a picture of what happens, when the player lands on one of those black dots:
It's the same animation, but only shows a little. Like I said, it plays fine when I open it with an internet browser, it plays fine when I play it in photoshop, but it just won't work with flash or captivate.
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No problem. Building a simple animation in Flash isn't that bad. You could save each "frame" as an image from PhotoShop and then import these into Flash and place one frame at the time on a keyframe in the flash timeline (press F6 to insert a keyframe).
If you want your animation to loop then you don't have to do anything as this is the default behavior. If you want it to stop at the last frame you insert a command in ActionScript to stop it. Select the last keyframe and hit F9 and type stop() in the ActionScript window.
Good luck!
www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more..

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*tl;dr- Easy way to take the frames of a GIF and change them to a BMP (there are about 40 frames per Action)
So- My friend was learning Java to build a game on Android while I would create the graphical resources. It will be a fighting game- so I went ahead and made animations for the moves and all the characters.
He needed help understanding the language so I thought I would go ahead and teach myself as well.
I read faster than him- and I got to a point where I find out that graphical resources have to be in BMP (or so the author tells me) and that each frame in gif is a seperate BMP.
So- is there an *
Photoshop CS6
Willing to get on the cloud or something for the other CS programs.

Yes, Ps CS6 can do that. An animated GIF will be opened as a document with each frame on a separate layer. Then the "Export Layers to Files" script can export a folder of BMPs.

Animated GIF Export issues

I have a simple Flash animation which I'd like to be made
into a transparent GIF.
When I do the GIF export, only the first frame of my
movieclips (which are placed in the main timeline) get rendered. It
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the GIF file, and does not play movieclip objects. You would expect
the GIF recording to be of the same preview as when you hit
ctrl+enter (essentially final playback).
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and not within movieclips. It doesn't work for me (and for most
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I've had to use a 3rd-party tool (Magic SWF2GIF) to do the
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seems. Because of this, I have to rely on more 3rd-party GIF tools,
most of which are rubbish.
In the end, I've had to take snap shots of every individual
frame and edit each frame as individual files in Photoshop to do
all the cropping and transparency just right. Real pain when you
are talking 50 frames, and having to do multiple animations.
Is there a way to export transparent GIF's in Flash?
Seems kind of dumb that I have all this high-end software and
loads of tools... and I still have to edit things frame by
frame.

Thank you for your reply!
I check exported GIFs in various browsers and XnView viewer.
It's definitely not a preview issue - i have 32Gb of RAM and Nvidia Quadro 4000 GPU on my system.
I believe the issue is with transparency, because i'm able to export GIFs with solid background just fine
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I'm trying to create an animated gif. I made a BG image that I want the video to go on top of. The video is 136 frames (layers). I duplicated the BG image 136 times and pasted the videos 136 layers on top of the BG image.. Here is my problem.. I need to move the video frames (136 of them) onthe background so it lines up better... How do I move them all at once. Meaning if I move the frame on layer 1, the frames will move on EVERY layer. There has to be a way to move them so they all move to the same location at once. There is no way I could move each one separately and get them in the exact same location... I know this isn't the ideal way to do it, but it will work for what I'm wanting to do.. I just want to be able to move the video layers to a new location compared to where they are when I paste them on the BG...
PLEASE HELP!!!
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GT
Edit: Using PS CS4 extended

well, when I use to use imageready, I would have to duplicated the BG for each frame of the video...
What would be the best way to do this then,,,
I have an animated gif that is 136 frames ..
I want to put it on a BG I made in PS.... When I copy and paste all the frames (via the animation palette select all) onto the new bG the image is not centered on the BG I made... I want to move each frame to a new location on the BG... How would I go about doing that?
Sorry if I'm not explaining it clearly... I'm trying..LOL
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Hello guys
I'm not really sure how to explain that, due to my limited English comprehansion. I will try with images.
I can easily create animated gif out of multiple layers, given each layer is identical, with small changes accuring over time.
But I yet to figure out an animated gif, that uses one large image for the base, and only small part of it is animated.
I always get the animated part working, without the large base applying across all the frames. All it does, is flashes once
the frame is reached and then moves on to being transparent, showing only the small animated part.
For example, this is a GIF made with Galaxy S4, of my friend playing with his phone, imported into PS CS6. On the Galaxy,
after I record the GIF, I can use my finder to touch, mask and freez parts I don't want to move, and leave only small, animated bit.
When I import it to PS, it shows one layer with full image, and bunch of frames with the animation part only.
http://i.imgur.com/UAiopQA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7XOGGV6.jpg
Problem is, once the image is open with PS, I'm not able to export it to keep it working in the same manner. Given the Samsung's
gifs are 8 to 10mb, it's hard to edit it, to make it more size friendly.
The gif clearly works the way I describe, so there is a setting or method I don't know about.
If PS is not best tool for editing GIF, what other apps would you recommand I use for it?
Thank you for the taking the time to read
best regards
Monica

This has been an ongoing issue for me since I switched from Powerpoint to Keynote. Most of the animated gifs with transparent backgrounds that I used with Powerpoint are no longer transparent in Keynote. You may want to search for those earlier threads on this topic...
To summarize: I've had to open up my animated gifs in After Effects and use the Color Key effect to restore transparency, with mixed success.
Good luck!

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Not in iMovie.
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I made an animated gif with a transparent background, saved it for the web with the best quality settings I know of, and the image gets this weird white outline around it. Here's what it looks like on grey background so you can actually see the issue I'm having: http://imgur.com/ujKBJDu
at first I thought it was an anti alias issue with my crappy laptop, but then when I exported it on a high end gaming pc it looked exactly the same. Anyway I need to export this and not end up with this issue so any help is appreciated.

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