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Re: Moving Avatar

el jopez — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:25:09 GMT

Meagan, your avatar is hilarious, cracking me up right now

Re: Moving Avatar

Speedball — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:43:43 GMT

Meagan........cool avatar and you didnt have to shake the monitor....

Snoopy is in a file on my computer.

Re: Moving Avatar

meagain — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:04:05 GMT

IT WORKS! LOL :) I'm so happy now.

Re: Moving Avatar

meagain — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:57:43 GMT

It is on another server. I just can't get it to work (animate). I'll try again later. Maybe something changed with the forum since last I tried.

Re: Moving Avatar

el jopez — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:48:25 GMT

meagin, you will have to upload your animated image to another server other than the klipsch one.

Re: Moving Avatar

meagain — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:24:03 GMT

Can anyone tell me how to get my animated avatar to work here?

Re: Moving Avatar

el jopez — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:02:09 GMT

she works like a charm if i do say

Re: Moving Avatar

Clarence — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:36:30 GMT

jacksonbart:
shake your monitor.

ha!

Re: Moving Avatar

jacksonbart — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:30:36 GMT

shake your monitor.

Re: Moving Avatar

Paladin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:09 GMT

The short answer....Once you uploaded it, it's not a gif anymore, so it won't animate.

The long (geeky) answer why. When the avatar images are uploaded they are manipulated in code and stored as JPEGs no matter what the original format is. The data is stored as an image type in the database. Then code renders the image on your posts. This is why if you right click most of the user's avatars and choose properties you see that the image file path is .../users/avatar.aspx?userid={%member_user_id%}. "avatar.aspx" is simply a server code page that retrieves the image based on the request (the ?userid= part) and renders it.

In the case of animated gifs I don't know how it decides which frame of animation to choose as the part to convert to JPEG. Probably the first one...(but since gif ani's get optimised and can be complex I don't know for certain).

We do have remote avatars enabled, so if you have web hosting that allows offsite linking, you may be able to specify the image as a gif from your website / hosting account (should you have one). I haven't tried this so I don't know if it works (IOW that the forum still doesn't manipulate the image even though it's being retrieved remotely)...

Moving Avatar

John Albright — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:43:43 GMT

I have a moving gif I uploaded to use as my avatar. How do I get it to move?