Author Topic: Getting Smilies to move around (Read 7640 times)

bellbram · « **on:** March 30, 2003, 03:55:00 AM »

I'm somewhat addicted to smilies and have a nice collection. Also have a problem. With OS9.2 they all worked fine — eyes blinked : fingers pointed etc. I moved the smilies folder to OS10.2 and though all they're all there, none of the 'active' ones move at all. If I put them in an email, they just sit like stuffed dummies.

I've searched the net (via Google) for my original set of smilies (which included a lovely worm in love with his rear end) but can't find it anywhere. The only active smilies I've found are apparently only for Windows.

Anyone know where I can download a collection that will work with Jaguar.

Feel a bit stupid asking such a mundane question when others have real problems, but that's the nice thing about being anonymous

snuffysbluff · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2003, 06:29:00 AM »

I don't know Jaguar from a hole in the ground, but maybe some classic app was left behind.

The worm and others are at the website below.
thanks for the compliment...I like getting a"lovely".

By the by...what are the BG's really like?

Gary B

kelly · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2003, 09:10:00 AM »

bellbram. You know these aren't "Self Contained" items.

These are just links to items on a web site.

Gary has graciously made many that we all link to.

They aren't something that you can use seperate from a web link.

Hmm. Snuffy and gracious. As in full of grace.

Whatever.

snuffysbluff · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2003, 09:58:00 AM »

There has (or should) be a application that would open the gifs. They're just a series of PICS saved as a GIFF. 40 in the case of the "Bug".

The App I used to make 'em hasn't been released in a version for OSX.

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Kelly..."Gracious" is OK...I'll take it although it makes me feel a need for a tastefull string of cultured pearls

[ 03-30-2003, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: snuffysbluff ]

bellbram · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:25:00 PM »

snuffysbluff: Thanks for response. Never knew what a genius you are! I must have downloaded from your site, I guess, but now I don't seem able to do it.

Am sure I downloaded the entire collection in one go, but your BUG site would seem to suggest downloading one at a time. Even so, I couldn't even do that. What's the secret?

As for the BeeGees, they're not my scene, so can't help you there. Sorry.

snuffysbluff · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2003, 12:01:00 PM »

I just went to my GIFF page. I clicked on one of the animated GIFFS and when the window appeared, I chose "Download Image to Disk". Saved it in a file and opened it in AnimationMaker.

Worked fine. Just clicking on the downloaded GIFF opens it in PictureViewer and you only get one frame..

Worked for me in 9.1...But then...Life is much less complicated on the trailing edge.

Going back up and read that part about "genius" again.

[ 03-30-2003, 01:05 PM: Message edited by: snuffysbluff ]

bellbram · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2003, 12:59:00 PM »

Things must be different in Iowa! If I click on the smilie title it highlights, but I see nowhere I can "Download Image to Disk". And I can't manage a click on the smiie itself. Is it me? Or OS10.2?

I might add that I'm also getting no joy with OS9.2 which I've still got. (And I wish I'd never heard of Jaguar)

I know we're a bit in the boondocks here on the Isle of Man, but I thought we had the same wizard technology.

Mind you, at my age (77) is it any wonder?

Dear me

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2003, 01:16:00 PM »

bellbram,

All you need to view these images in X, Jag, or any other OS is a program that can display animated gif's. Must be something in Jag, but I think Graphiconvertor has an X version. And even IE could be used, if you type in the file link/path in the Location box.

As for downloading as snuffy suggested, you may need to be a little more precise about where and how long to hold down the mouse button. If the file name is 'highlighted' you are simply clicking on the text link for the file, but that will probably only open it in a wundow. However, it may also download it for you, depends on what the site creator makes it do.

What I think snuffy wants you to do is to click on the image itself. But hold down the button. In a few seconds or less, you should see a short mini-menu with at least one choice saying "Download Image to Disk." That should work for any image of any kind on any site (secure ones excepted). That is the simplest way to steal...I mean borrow some image. Exactly where it is downloaded is up to you. There should be a preference setting in your browser that allows you to specify what folder to send these to. I cleverly named mine "Downloads!"

Let us know if there are still problems. And maybe some one with X can share a few titles of programs that can easily display animated gif's.

Jim C.

bellbram · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2003, 01:50:00 PM »

Jim C. Thanks. It was the 'few seconds' holding down I didn't do. Oddly enough it works sometimes but not always. Anyway I've managed to download a few gifs but still can't get them to animate so,if anyone out there knows what app for OS10.2 will do it, I'd be a very grateful, if aged, bunny.

Peter W.

Bruce_F · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2003, 02:11:00 PM »

Peter,

If you're trying to get animated gifs to animate in OSX Mail, forget it. Mail doesn't support animated images, yet. It doesn't even do a good job of supporting images... period.

If the next version of OSX Mail doesn't get some fixes for this, I'm going to stop using it.

Use Netscape or Mozilla Mail to send and receive images with the best image support going.

krissel · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:16:00 PM »

If you are using Netscape you have to mousedown to get the mini menu and save to disk. In Explorer all you need do is click and drag the image off the page to the desktop and the whole animated file downloads automatically. Drop it in any browser window to see it animate.

Drop it in ImageReady or GraphicConverter (yes, there is a version for X) also to animate, to work on the layers or add some of your own.

Right, Snuffy ?

sunset · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:44:00 PM »

Bellbram,

Don't know what email program you're using--I use N/7 in 10.2.4 and had, what I thought, was the same problem for a while. That was very disappointing cuz I really enjoyed using 'smilies', etc., in my messages. However, I discovered that when I used them in N/7, they did 'just sit there' in the message but the receiver was able to see the 'action'!!

Krissel is right... if you want to see if they work/do their thing, just open a blank browser page and drag & drop one of them onto it. If you're using N/7, you'll see its animation. Almost all of the ones I used in N/4xx work in N/7. Strange thing is, though, that they don't 'save' the same way, i.e., as gif's. They save as 'clippings' or ??? when they're dragged to the desktop. I always rename them right away so I know what they are. If you're using them in anything other than N/7, I don't know if they work the same.

Bill · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:13:00 AM »

Gracious/genius,yes. By snuffys avatar .. graceful might be a little much. <gr>

snuffysbluff · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:27:00 AM »

quote:
Originally posted by krissel:
If you are using Netscape you have to mousedown to get the mini menu and save to disk. In Explorer all you need do is click and drag the image off the page to the desktop and the whole animated file downloads automatically. Drop it in any browser window to see it animate.

Drop it in ImageReady or GraphicConverter (yes, there is a version for X) also to animate, to work on the layers or add some of your own.

Right, Snuffy ?

I wish I'd said that...wish I'd known that.

Leave it to a teacher for a succinct explaination.
"mousedown"...beeyoodifull !

snuffysbluff · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:31:00 AM »

Bill...You blockhead! Avatarically speaking.

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Author Topic: Getting Smilies to move around (Read 7640 times)