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digijock: It's no better on a Macintosh. Animated gifs only play at their natural size. Here is the official confirmation: https://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17899&hl=animated+gif . I don't normally set constraints, so that is why it worked for me when I tested your link. I probably had seen this comment some time ago, but had forgotten.

And sure enough, the clue you gave ("there are no controls provided by the Widget Engine to influence the way animated gifs are displayed") led to an answer. After reading this:

https://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24531&hl=animated+gif

I went into the prefs for the widget instance in question, and removed all of the constraints in the geometry1 tab. Now it works beautifully. I think I can live with the image being a little bigger than I want.

So there yo…u are. Windows widget engine can't resize animated GIFs without problems. Mac can do it without trouble. Unsurprising. ;-)

-jeff More

Thanks for checking it out. I haven't found any more clues. If I do find an answer I'll let you know. And thanks again for supporting your widget so well. I love it!

digijock: I've run the animated gif from your link (below) in WebImages and in Safari on a 2GHz Intel Core Duo iMac using Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard). In both cases I saw the same correct behaviour (6 frames shown in about 4 to 5 seconds) when the gif was first loaded (or reloaded) and displayed. In WebImages, the animation (sometimes) stops when the Widget receives other events, such as loosing or regaining focus.

That said, there are no controls provided by the Widget Engine to influen…ce the way animated gifs are displayed, so there is nothing that you (or I) can do to improve matters.

I don't have a real Windows system, so I can't do a comparable test on Windows. Perhaps, another user might comment. More