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An animated .GIF image is an image file which displays an animation.

This tag should be used in questions asking for help using an animated GIF in their applications, modifying an animated GIF in code, or reading pixels from an animated GIF in code.

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Programmatically generate video or animated GIF in Python?

I have a series of images that I want to create a video from. Ideally I could specify a frame duration for each frame but a fixed frame rate would be fine too. I'm doing this in wxPython, so I can render to a wxDC or I can save the images to…
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Display Animated GIF

I want to display animated GIF images in my aplication. As I found out the hard way Android doesn't support animated GIF natively. However it can display animations using AnimationDrawable: Develop > Guides > Images & Graphics > Drawables…
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How do I get an animated gif to work in WPF?

What control type should I use - Image, MediaElement, etc.?
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Is it possible to embed animated GIFs in PDFs?

Is it possible to embed animated GIFs in PDFs? And how might I go about such a thing? are there any dangers I should be aware of? For some more details on why I think it's a good thing and how it helps feel free to see this post. I didn't think it…
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How do you show animated GIFs on a Windows Form (c#)

I have a form showing progress messages as a fairly long process runs. It's a call to a web service so I can't really show a percentage complete figure on a progress bar meaningfully. (I don't particularly like the Marquee property of the progress…
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Animated GIF in IE stopping

Does anyone know a work around to make animated GIF's continue to be animated after you click a link or submit a form on the page your on in IE? This works fine in other browsers. Thanks.
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Can you control GIF animation with Javascript?

Is it possible to use javascript to control which frame of a GIF image is showing and/or stop the animation. I want to be able to load a GIF with several frames and only show one of them. I know I could do it with lots of separate images, but if I…
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Stopping GIF Animation Programmatically

I am developing a Twitter application which references to the images directly from Twitter. How can I prevent animated gifs from being played? Using window.stop() at the end of the page does not work for me in Firefox. Is there a better JavaScript…
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How do I crop an animated gif using ImageMagick?

There's plenty of information about cropping images, but attempting to crop (or trim) animations produces strange results. Sometimes they flicker, or come with extra frames, or some frames crop correctly and others become offset. How do I prevent…
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Create and export an animated gif via iOS?

I have a series of user-customized images within an iOS app that are being animated in a simple, frame-by-frame flip book style. My question is this: is there a way to allow users to export their animation as an animated gif? Ideally, I'd like to…
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Create animated gif from a set of jpeg images

I need something that can be scripted on windows 7. This image will be used in banners.
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how to create an animated gif in .net

Does anyone know how to create an animated gif using c#? Ideally I would have some control over the color reduction used. Is using imagemagick (as an external started process) the best choice?
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Animated GIF in HTML5 canvas

In HTML5, how can I draw easily (no too much complex code please) an animated GIF in a canvas that works (with drawImage only first frame is shown in the canvas)
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How to animate GIFs in HTML document?

I have the following tag in a static HTML document. This is an animated gif image, but it does not move After I set its src attribute to point to a .gif file (i.e. foo.gif), the GIF appears as a static (or…
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Resize animated GIF file without destroying animation

I need to resize an animated GIF file without destroying the animation. How can I do it using PHP?
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