I just put gif into a mobile today. I imported it as control. I wanted the user to see some motion while the app initializes. It is just a spinning ball(7kb). I loads quick and resizes nicely but motion is jerky. Is there any way to yield more time to the engine so it spins smoothly? I do local database and network http requests to/from my LC server scripts. The latter may be blocking I fear.
I also have to set it's visible to false on Android when leaving the spin ball card because the gif appears on the next card spinning quite nicely. You also see the background of the previous card thru the transparency of the objects bounding box (ball is round control is a rectangle) It's not on the next card. I have to put a QCC report in on this one. 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 J. Landman Gay Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:27 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Animations on iOS On 12/15/2015 12:54 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > Loading the GIF from an external file might be better but I couldn't > make this work on mobile - should it be possible? Do I want a relative > path or an absolute one? I've never had to do it with a gif, but I'd think the process would be the same as any other image file. In the stack script: put specialFolderPath("Resources") & slash & <filename.gif> into tPath set the filename of img x to tPath Put the gif file into the same folder with your stack so it will work on the desktop as well as on mobile. SpecialFolderPath("Resources") points to the current stack folder on desktop. In a standalone, it points to a Resources folder that the standalone builder creates automatically for copied files. In standalone settings -> copy files pane, add the gif file. See if that works. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ 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
