how do you draw gif animations turing

[josh_65665]

i want to make a moving level for a game how do i draw a gif

[CodeMonkey2000]

I don't think turing can handle gifs.

[Nick]

4.1 can I don't know the command though

[josh_65665]

i got it to open a gif but it does not play through it and when i do get it to play through it it does not look like the gif i made for example lets say i made a airplane gif and its rotar rotates on turing it would probaly look like a part black screen and part of the screen flashing i need to know how to properly open my gif

[Mackie]

From Turing Help (F10)

Turing:

% The "Pic.DrawFrames" program. % Determine the number of frames in "globe.gif" const fileName := "%oot/Support/Help/Examples/Data Files/globe.gif" var numFrames : int := Pic.Frames (fileName) % Load the picture var delayTime : int var pics : array 1 .. numFrames of int Pic.FileNewFrames (fileName, pics, delayTime) % Set the window to fit the picture var w := Pic.Width (pics (1)) + 20 var h := Pic.Height (pics (1)) + 20 View.Set ("graphics:" + intstr (w) + ";" + intstr (h) + ",nobuttonbar") % Display the pictures for i : 1 .. 50     Pic.DrawFrames (pics, 10, 10, picCopy, upper (pics), 50, false) end for

[josh_65665]

when i run that sample i get a rotating globe but when i change the path of the globe gif to where my gif is it does not work and if any one needs to know i have turing 4.1.1

[Mackie]

What did you enter exactly as the path? As in EVERYTHING in the quotation marks.

[Nick]

some gifs do not work

[josh_65665]

i would extract my gif file if i have to but theres so many frames in it i dont want to extract it if i dont need to i know theres a way to put my gif on the screen and have it run properly because the globe.gif works just need working code that will do it

[josh_65665]

this code works for the globe gif but not for my gif why is that

code:

const fileName := "C:/Users/josh/Pictures/level5.gif" var numFrames : int := Pic.Frames (fileName) var delayTime : int var pics : array 1 .. numFrames of int Pic.FileNewFrames (fileName, pics, delayTime) var w := Pic.Width (pics (1)) + 20 var h := Pic.Height (pics (1)) + 20 View.Set ("graphics:" + intstr (w) + ";" + intstr (h) + ",nobuttonbar") for i : 1 .. 50 delay (1000)     Pic.DrawFrames (pics, 10, 10, 0, upper (pics), 50, false) end for

[Mackie]

It's hit or miss. It probably won't work.

[josh_65665]

does any one have any more suggestions

[CodeMonkey2000]

Don't use GIFs, store all the images in an array, then draw them one by one.

[josh_65665]

how do i do that i dont really know how to use arrays

[A.J]

I suggest you check out the Turing Walkthrough page and learn about all the basics (plus there are some advanced stuff like recursion)
first !