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24 05 2007

Animated Gif Loader Flex component updated

Posted by: Doug, in Flex
UPDATE: The AnimatedGifLoader component is no longer for sale.

There are some open-source alternatives to load animated gifs in Flash/Flex projects. Please see the following links:
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=95
http://labs.flexcoders.nl/2007/08/30/another-bytearray-fxc-mixfxcloader/

I’ve released an update to the AnimatedGifLoader Flex component that lets you load animated gifs in Flex. This update adds much more complete support for animated gif files. If you had any trouble with using this component with an animated gif, download the newest version and try it out. Everyone who has already purchased this component has already received this update (if not please email me).

I’ve updated the API a bit, released the ASDoc documentation, and put together a small Apollo application that will let you test the component to see if it will work with the animated gifs you want to load.

And for your old school viewing pleasure, some animated gifs loaded into a Flex app:

This movie requires Flash Player 9.

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6 Responses to “Animated Gif Loader Flex component updated”

  1. Dusty says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    I always thought it was a *feature* to not have animated gif support….

    j/k… looks like good work… I’m sure I’ll end up having a client that will want users to be able to have their favorite animated avatar in the application…

  2. Deepa Subramaniam says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    Yeah – you’d be surprised how many people ask for this. Nice job Doug!

  3. Happenings in the Flex World « FLEXing My Muscle says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 1:55 am

    [...] 2) Animated GIF Loader by Doug -  This is something I always wanted. SWFLoader/Image control has a drawback of not supporting animated GIFs (a workaround is to have the animated GIF inside a SWF and embed the SWF itself). Its great to see Doug come out with this. But it is paid (a meger $50 ). This one’s for the FlexBox… Are you listening Mrinal?? [...]

  4. chinna says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Nice work , but i got to tell you that the cost is bit high and so the alternative is ::

    http://flexology.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/loadinganimated_gif_in_flex/

    Take a look at that ,, :-)

    regards,
    kumar.

  5. Loading Animated GIF in Flex « Flex-ology :: Flex, AS3 and more! says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    [...] that has always been the most wanted thing for Flex Developers. Doug McCune has made a component, Animated GIF Loader which actually loads animated gif. But the only drawback is that it costs [...]

  6. martin says:
    January 27th, 2010 at 11:01 am

    Hi i have experience with gif in other languages and i realized that they are not time based animation.So its speed depends from the client machine.It means that in differents computers it is going to see different.Eihter more fast or more slow.
    That is anoying.i am investigating if this components solve this problem.Tell me something if you know.

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