Display gif image from Internet in labview

[ManiAm]

Hello,

I want to display a gif image from the Internet and display it in the labview. How can I do this ? for example: http://icons-ak.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_cloudy.gif

I could not find any vi for gif images in the "Graphics Format Pallet".

[tst · Accepted solution]

You can convert the image to another format manually or do a search here for VIs to read GIFs. Here's one example - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Controlling-Gif-aninimation/m-p/970543?view=by_date_ascending#M43520...

If you also want to download the image using LV, you can use the Datasocket Read function and add "[text]" to the end of the URL. This will return the binary data as a string which you can then write to a file.