Does anyone have GIF reading/writing tools to share?

[Dynamik]

Hi all,

      Searched this forum and found many queries re: GIFs, but no (free) tools.  Tried to follow a [broken] link at Unisys re: GIF legalities.  One of US is selling a Toolbox.

I guess NI can't distribute GIF tools with LabVIEW because of a patent, but would a tool developed by one of us, and shared freely here, be Kosher?

Cheers.

[tst]

I don't know about reading (maybe G Toolbox?), but writing can be done with a built-in VI found at vi.lib\picture\gif.llb which doesn't appear in the palettes. It doesn't seem to support any GIF options, though.

[Dynamik]

Thanks, tst!

Pretty sneaky not including "Write GIF.vi" on the "Graphics Formats" palette - nice call.  It's got the same style icon and image-data typedef.  Excellent.

I found an old post of yours and chased down some George Zou VIs, but he's asking 30 clams for the tools!

In the spirit of this forum, thought I might write what's needed - at least the missing GIF stuff.   ... need it to animate my icon

Cheers.