I was just getting ready to do a simple animation on mobile. I was thinking on testing an animated gif first. I was wondering if LC would animate a gif. Well you answered that question. Now you're talking about slow load times. How big is you gif(resolution, #of frames)? I want to have a spinning ball to distract the user while the rest of my app loads and initializes. How long is the load delay?
I'm using LC 6.7.6 Android Win XP, LC 6.7.7 iOS Xcode 6.2 OSX 10.9.5. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Ben Rubinstein Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 2:23 PM To: Use LiveCode Subject: Animations on iOS What are my options for displaying an animation in a portion of the card/screen on iOS? Currently I've tried: 1) making it into a video, in a very limited range of formats, and playing it from an external file using a native control Pros: works, choice of controller etc, plays from a separate file and starts up fairly quickly Cons: video formats not super-efficient for animation, and at least as I've managed so far, limited to certain resolutions - I'm forced to crop or squash my original animation. 2) making it into a GIF on the card, which works quite nicely except that there's an enormous delay going to the card, presumably as the animation is buffered. Pros: can be exactly the size I want; plays quite smoothly Cons: I've not managed to play this from an external file, and if it's embedded on the card there's an unacceptable delay. Is there a third way? Should I be able to set the filename of an image object to an external gif file? Are there some video formats accepted on iOS which are good for animation and which will allow arbitrary dimensions? TIA, Ben _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
