Image animation

[truebluejw]

Ok, so forgive me for asking a very very beginner question. I have watched and gone through most of the beginner and intermediate tutorials on this site and they have helped a lot. I've been playing around adding buttons, loading stuff, etc. I am confused on one thing though. I know how to load an image and set it up in imageview, but is there something I need to do to get an animated gif to play the frames? Should I be doing this with individual arrays? I just want to loop this one gif on part of the screen. It plays in the preview, but not in the actual emulator. I've read video doesn't play in the emulator sometimes? Thanks a bunch

[ralph.helou]

Originally Posted by truebluejw

Ok, so forgive me for asking a very very beginner question. I have watched and gone through most of the beginner and intermediate tutorials on this site and they have helped a lot. I've been playing around adding buttons, loading stuff, etc. I am confused on one thing though. I know how to load an image and set it up in imageview, but is there something I need to do to get an animated gif to play the frames? Should I be doing this with individual arrays? I just want to loop this one gif on part of the screen. It plays in the preview, but not in the actual emulator. I've read video doesn't play in the emulator sometimes? Thanks a bunch

hey there, to animate using a set of images, first place all the images in a folder and add it to your project. in the viewController.h add:

IBOutlet UIImageView *imageview;

and before the @ end, add:

- (IBAction) startAnimation;

in the viewController.m add the following code:

- (IBAction)animateid)sender{
imageview.animationImages = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:

[UIImage imageNamed:@"image1.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image2.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image3.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image4.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image5.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image6.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image7.png"],
[UIImage imageNamed:@"image8.png"], nil];

[imageview setAnimationRepeatCount:2]; /*how many times you want to repeat the animation*/
imageview.animationDuration = 1; /*set the number of seconds you want the animation to last*/
[imageview startAnimating];
}

Go to the viewController.xib, add an 'image view' to the 'view' then link the imageview from the file's owner to the image view. Second, add a button to the view and link the 'startAnimation' from the file's owner to the button in the view.

cheers.

[d2bes]

Originally Posted by truebluejw

Ok, so forgive me for asking a very very beginner question. I have watched and gone through most of the beginner and intermediate tutorials on this site and they have helped a lot. I've been playing around adding buttons, loading stuff, etc. I am confused on one thing though. I know how to load an image and set it up in imageview, but is there something I need to do to get an animated gif to play the frames? Should I be doing this with individual arrays? I just want to loop this one gif on part of the screen. It plays in the preview, but not in the actual emulator. I've read video doesn't play in the emulator sometimes? Thanks a bunch

So I think you're trying to get it and load it to a uiimageview. So here it is.

With iPhone SDK:

UIImage *IMG = [UIImage isEqual:@"REC.png"];
[IMG setImage:IMG];

With the Mac SDK:

-(void)configureImage2NSString*)imagePathStr2 {

NSImage* image2 = [[NSImage alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:imagePathStr2];
[img2 setImage:image2];
[image2 release];

}


-(IBAction)display1id)sender {

NSString* imagePathStr = [[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"wood" ofType:@"png"];
[self configureImage:imagePathStr];

}


tell me if this is not what you meant.