Animated GIF support in 2019?

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:01 am
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Animated GIF support in 2019?

I'm sure this has been asked for millions of times, but I'd like to get a sense of where in the priority pile does having animated GIFs work on Indigo touch for IOS fall.

Is it something that will come in my lifetime or should I mess around trying to make a sim of it by refreshing an image that changes (a hack). It may not seem to be an important new item but it would make a big difference on control pages - they would come to life - and I don't think adding GIF support is as hard as landing someone on Mars.

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:31 am
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

It's not on our radar for the next feature release. No idea after that.

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:35 am
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

Sadness....
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Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:51 am
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

It's not what you asked, and possibly not what you want, but they will work if you view them in a browser control page... You have to rename the *.gif to an *.png so they show as selectable in Indigo but it will work (actually converting them to an animated png may work as well, but I usually just rename them). It's not ideal, but it may get you by until Touch supports them. BTW, they'll still show as a static image in Touch.

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 12:16 pm
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

So are you saying the animation stops working - that is the part I'm interested in getting to work on the display?

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 3:09 pm
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

norcoscia wrote:
So are you saying the animation stops working - that is the part I'm interested in getting to work on the display?


Correct, if you use Indigo Touch, it will display as a static image, however if you use a web browser to view the control page, it will be animated

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Sat Nov 17, 2018 3:13 pm
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Re: Animated GIF support in 2019?

OK, now I understand, thx

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