Animated GIFs in Turing

[O(128)]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I am attempting to display an Animated GIF file in Turing.

What is the problem you are having?

When I load the GIF, the background of the GIF is changed from being transparent to pink

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem

I loaded the GIF to an online editor (http://www.online-image-editor.com/), and attempted to reset the transparency, but when Turing loaded the modified file the files was distorted with random bars of color. I also tried messing around with View.Set and View.Update, but it didn't work. When I converted the gif to a jpeg, the transparent background was set to the same shade of pink that was displayed in Turing.

According to the Turing 4.1 update:

Quote:

GIF files can specify a "transparent color", and this is supported by Turing. When a GIF with a transparent color is loaded by Turing, the "transparent color" is added to the color palette (if not already present). If the picture is displayed using the picMerge mode, the "transparent color" will not be displayed. Note that the "transparent color" is a real color. If you use the picCopy mode, this color is displayed.

I suspect that when Turing tried to load the GIF, it didn't load the transparent color into its palette and set it to a default color. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to load the transparent color, or tell me what number represents the default color in Turing so I can attempt to use View.SetTransparentColor to work around it

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Turing:

var numFrames := Pic.Frames ("run.gif") var pics : array 1 .. numFrames of int var delayTime : int := 1 Pic.FileNewFrames ("run.gif", pics, delayTime) View.Set ("graphics,offscreenonly") loop Pic.DrawFrames (pics, 10, 10, picMerge, numFrames, 100, false) View.Update end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
<4.1>

Thank you for your time

[USEC_OFFICER]

Try Pic.Transparentcolour or something like that. It's been a while.

[O(128)]

The thing is I don't know how to determine the value of the new background of the GIF file, so I can't use Pic.Transparentcolour

[USEC_OFFICER]

Try editing them to a colour you do know then.

[O(128)]

I apoligise for not being more clear, but I don't how to determine the value of any colour. Is there some function in Turing that would allow me to specifiy a pixel and have it output the value representing the color or something like that?

[O(128)]

And the mystery deepens, I tried using whatdotcolor to figure out the value that the pink represented, but according to it, the value was 0

[USEC_OFFICER]

Then did you try and see what 0 did?

[hamid14]

This is a probably the long way of doing it, but maybe he could split the the individual frames of the GIF using IrfanView, and then use GIMP or another good image editing program to make the background transparent. Probably should avoid this if he has more than a 1000 frames, lol.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Or edit it frame to colours reconized by Turing.