Animation /animated gifs

hi all
i was trying to use animated gifs in a game. The problem comes when I run the animated gif. The previous images of the gif remain on the screen. When I use any imaging software to view the animated gif it comes up correctly. My first question is it a problem with my animated gif or do I need to do something in Java. if the answer is I need to do something in java, could someone please help and tell me what I need to do.

you could of always said.....
save the animated gifs as individual gifs and cycle through them in the code?
probably been easier, no?

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doesn't
seem to be an option because I want this to be a gif that I
can tile
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other than
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On 02 Jan 2008 in macromedia.fireworks, David G. wrote:
> I am trying to create a simple animation of snow
falling. This will
> be in front of a mountain scene that I have already
created. Can
> anyone point me to a tutorial on how to create a snow
effect? Flash
> doesn't seem to be an option because I want this to be a
gif that I
> can tile horizontally across the top of a web page. Is
there any way
> other than manually animating all the flakes over all of
the frames?
> My other obstacle is that with each successive frame
there needs to
> be "new" snow coming down again from the top.
Check back a week or so for Project Seven's Christmas
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http://makowiec.net/
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quote:
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> Hi,
> See my site www.justinmettam.com I want to animate a
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>
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>

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Here is only the image file, if necessary: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zwn3z4nz5ug&thumb=4
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Edited by: ProgrammingNewb on Jun 10, 2010 1:57 PM

Maxideon wrote:
2. Thanks for that. Not sure what difference it will make but always good to follow standards and good programming practices.
Edit: Changing paint to paintComponent makes it stop painting anything to screen. Weird...paint() calls paintComponent(). So including super.paint() within paintComponent will cause infinite recursion. You'll get a StackOverflowError anytime you try to paint the panel. So change paint to paintComponent and+ super.paint(g) to super.paintComponent(g);Also, only dispose graphic objects that you create. Don't dispose ones that are given to you.
3. Alright, will try to implement and update if there are any changes to the behavior.
Edit: No behavior in animation when it is read in through ImageIO.read ( File f)Since we're talking about an animated gif, it will be easier to stick with a Toolkit creation method. The way a gif normally plays out is by providing a non-null argument for the ImageObserver parameter of Graphics#drawImage.You currently provide null.
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Graphics#drawImage --> ImageObserver notified (the component) --> Component calls repaint() --> Graphics#drawImage --> ect...Alright changed the paint to paintComponent and got rid of the dispose at the end.
Regarding the ImageObserver, I have a thread which calls repaint as well, so wouldn't calling it again from inside the paint method just get me stuck in a infinite loop where the image animates but nothing else can occur and shouldn't the thread do the same job as an image observer? As well, the Player class, which does the image drawing is handed a reference to the Graphics2D object, but does not extend a swing object that actually has a paint method. Therefore, I cannot implement an ImageObserver on it or the MainControl class since the main class does not actually call the draw image method. Sorry if I am misunderstanding this, haven't really read about ImageObserver but will search it up.
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Hi, everyone:
My name is Edison, I am playing with Gif89Encoder utility classes to make an animated gif which is a requirement for my course work.
I got some problem about the transparent frames. I used the png image as the frame to create the animated gif,
those pngs have transparent colors and the background is totally transparent, when i create the animated the gif with those
frames, the animated gif display the colors but without transparency for those colors, but the background is transparent as expected.
I am not sure if I should IndexGif89Frame or DirectGif89Frame for the colors from the Gif89encoder package.
Is there anyone got the same problem and knows how to fix it?
The following is how i setup the colors in my png file, the alpha channel is 80.
Color[] colours = new Color[7];
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