a leetle beet off topic, but graphics related........

[Rastamon]

I recently received an e-mail, through Outlook, that contained functional animations. I had previously determined that Outlook doesn't support animated gifs. While investigating this anomoly, I discovered that I could "view source". It seems that this e-mail was originated by someone using "Hotbar". The question I have is:
How can animations function in Outlook when using Hotbar, but can't be achieved in any other possible way that I have been able to discover? I have tried "send webpage", pasting the webpage, inserting source code, etc.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

I havnt got a clue, but I likes the look of that hotbar thing, another gimmick to drain my resources, going to have a play wiht it though.

[Cheesefood]

Stupid Outlook. We use the less-popular Exchange which doesn't support HTML. The end result is Spam's being received chock full of code scattered about the text.

HTML e-mail is a bad idea for companies to employ.

[John Woram]

>I had previously determined that Outlook doesn't support animated gifs.

What version? I'm using Outlook 2000, and I just inserted an animated GIF into the message area with no problem.

[Rastamon]

John, we have Outlook 2000 too. When I copy and paste an animated gif into the message body, it becomes static. Are you doing it a different way?

[dave milbut]

maybe you have animations turned off in your browser prefrences?

[Rastamon]

Dave, I don't think so, cuz they work in the message that I received. Also "play animations" is enabled under "multimedia".

[dave milbut]

ah... just a thought.

[Cheesefood]

When I copy and paste an animated gif into the message body, it becomes
static. Are you doing it a different way?




Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't copy and paste animated GIF's. When you copy, you're only copying the one frame. You have to hard-code it in.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

Nope you copy the whoole thing Cheese

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

didnt say you could copy and paste into IR, but im sure i have. drag and drop it dude.

[Cheesefood]

Rasta said he copied and pasted. That's why I said you can't.

[John Woram]

Rastoman, here's what I did:

1. Create new message.
2. Open "Format" menu and select HTML.
3. Open "Insert" menu and select Picture.
4. Browse to desired GIF file and select it.
5. Click "OK" button.

This displays the animated GIF file in my message body, and the animation works fine.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

You can copy and paste giffs, you copy the whole file, copy and pasting into IR, now thats something new, but as i said you can drag and drop to it.

[Cheesefood]

You can do a "Save File As" to copy the whole file, otherwise you're copying frame by frame.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

copy and paste the giff file and double click it, it still runs all frames dude. Copy and past into something, again diferent.

[Rastamon]

John, when I go to the Format drop-down, there is no "HTML" option. If I skip that step and go to Insert-Picture, and insert an animated gif, it isn't animated. I am thinking that the system administrator has blocked animations, but then I should still see the html option, albeit opaque (greyed out). Also, if they are blocked, then the one I received via "hotbar" shouldn't work either. I could accept that animations are blocked, except the preceding two reasons don't add up.

[dave milbut]

don'cha love that!!!

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

BTW, hotbar is adware/spyware.




I relised this whilst at the site, so left well enogh alone.