How to include Animated GIF-s?

[Gorka Larrea]

Can animated gifs be included in a LabVIEW VI front
panel?If so, how?
Thanks in advance for any hint

Gorka


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[Michel Farhi]

LabVIEW doesn't have this capability as a buil in function. However, there
might be an ActiveX container solution to your problem if you are on
Windows.

-Michel Farhi

"Gorka Larrea" wrote in message
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> Can animated gifs be included in a LabVIEW VI front
> panel?If so, how?
> Thanks in advance for any hint
>
> Gorka
>
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
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[Gorka Larrea]

Well, using ActiveX container >> insert ActiveX Object
>>Create Object from file and selecting an animated GIF, it
appears on the front panel, but it is not animated. Someone
has any idea what I could do? I know nothing about ActiveX
and I'm totally lost.
Tanks

Gorka


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[struggler]

Go to www.jcomsoft.com and download and install the activex control for gif
animation - there is a free trial version, if you want to get rid of the
annoying registration mesages, you have to register.

then run labview and place a activex container on the frontpanel.
right click and select insert activex control
select the gif animation control
then right click on the container (with the gif control inserted) and select
properties.

A window opens allowing you to select which file you want to animate,
amongst other things

click ok and its done.

well, it worked for me anyway. Its really easy once you have the activex
gif animation control.

Cheers
John




Mike wrote in message
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> LabVIEW doesn't hav
e this capability as a buil in function. However, there
> might be an ActiveX container solution to your problem if you are on
> Windows.
>
> -Michel Farhi
>
> "Gorka Larrea" wrote in message
> news:1ddf3db6.5647eb1f@usw-ex0110-076.remarq.com...
> > Can animated gifs be included in a LabVIEW VI front
> > panel?If so, how?
> > Thanks in advance for any hint
> >
> > Gorka
> >
> >
> > * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
> related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is
> Beautiful
>
>

[jean-luc]

I solved it with a picture ring
animated using the ms timer.

because customer like to have their animated
company logo on the LabVIEW project

it works pretty well, and the pictures can
be imported from a animated gif format.
- transfor animated gif in as many single pictures as needed
- convert gifs to bmp
- import them
- build a picture ring
- lets run the animation ( speed can be adjusted using ms timer )


Jean-Luc

LabVIEW Hero
Gorka Larrea wrote in message
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> Can animated gifs be included in a LabVIEW VI front
> panel?If so, how?
> Thanks in advance for any hint
>
> Gorka
>
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
related Web Pages, Images,
Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is
Beautiful