[magick-users] Animated GIF stop/start question

[Tei]

On 10/29/07, Scott <scotbicknel at cox.net> wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2007 9:38:06 am rhubarbpie at poetworld.net
> wrote:
> > I've generated drawn images using PerlMagick and combined them
> > into an animated looping GIF.  However, is there a way to
> > generate the GIF with a stop/freeze/pause option(s)?  In
> > explanation, the GIF shows a moving part and being able to
> > stop and review an individual frame would be helpful.  This
> > may be a standard feature of animated GIFs of which I'm
> > unaware.
> >
> > If the above isn't possible, is it possible to generate the
> > GIF to advance manually?
>
> GIF animations are not interactive. There may be software that
> lets you do what you want, but I'm not aware of any program that
> does that. You can set the timing on individual frames of the
> animation so that it pauses at particular points for a specified
> time, but beyond that, I don't think you will find what you want
> in GIF.
> --
> Scott
> Linux user #: 246504

hehehehe...

GIF89a used to support a few crazy features no one supported.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
 v) User Input Flag - Indicates whether or not user input is
            expected before continuing. If the flag is set, processing will
            continue when user input is entered. The nature of the User input
            is determined by the application (Carriage Return, Mouse Button
            Click, etc.).
<<<<<<<<<<<<
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gif89a.txt
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifabout.htm#specs

unfortunally, Netscape 2.0 still not support all :D

Here are good example of animated GIF files:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/1827/cofre_c0.htm

bad taste existed before myspace profiles :D

nowdays all we want out of GIF, is animation, so all these crazy
features will never be implemented/extended.

people that want to extend a graphic format, seems to use PNG instead
(like InDesign)