sluggish animated gif

[icic]

Hi all

I have an animated gif in a picture box, but it doesnt play smoothly.

The gif is stored as a resource in my project.

It is only 350x350 pixels and a couple of seconds long, with about 12 frames - surely this is not too big?

Is there a better way I can place the GIF on my form to make it run smoother?

Thanks!

 

[vis781]

You could try a label control instead, there have been a couple of times when i've heard that picture boxes don't behave themselves properly.

 

[icic]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it still seems slow.

Any other ideas?

attachment: the GIF I am trying to use on my form

 

[vis781]

I have a little look. I'm assuming that you mean it's sluggish because the frames are a bit 'jerky' i've had a play with it, here's what i've come up with...

 

[icic]

thanks for that

if you don't mind, could you tell me what you adjusted (ie what settings on the GIf did you fiddle with?)

 

[vis781]

I didn't do much at all really, just played around with the interval between each frame.

 

[icic]

thanks for your help

the gif looks a lot better, and it works better in the exe

 

[vis781]

You welcome, if you haven't got any software to edit animated gif's then i'd be happy to help out, so long as there isn't thousands of them!! I've had a look around for some free software to do this but i haven't had any success.

 

[icic]

don't worry, ive got Adobe Photoshop CS which comes with another program called Imageready which does GIFs.

It is really good because you have your photoshop image with layers and then for each frame you set which layers are visible.