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Hi, I have an issue with animated gif files where they do not replay correctly when I return to the slide that contains them. They play fine the first time viewed, but not if you return to it. It seems the only way I'm able to keep the gif playing is if I set it to endlessly loop. And if I do that, the animation doesn't start from the beginning when I return to the slide. I just want the animation to start over and play from the beginning once every time I go back to the slide.
My animations were made in Flash and exported as gif animations. I'm using Captivate 7 and my client needs the course to be all HTML5 (no Flash).
Has anyone been able to get a animated gif (not set to loop) to play correctly (meaning from the beginning of it) if you return to the slide after viewing it already?
Thanks,
Dan

Hey Rick, thanks for your reply. I liked you idea and had hope, but I tried this and it had no effect. What I have figured out from testing however is that if I go back 1 to 5 slides and return to the animation slide it doesn't reset and just shows the last slide of the animation only. But if I go back 6 or more it does reset the animation. That's very strange! I tested this several times and got the same result. I wonder if there is a buffer of memory of some sort that drops slide info after 5 slides? Or something stranger?

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