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Re: Scrolling an Image via .gif Animation?

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From: martha
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:32
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It's a flash animation
"mark4man" <sonic.max@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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> People,
>
> Can someone take a look at this scrolling graphic (implemented via
> scripting); & tell me how I might recreate it as an animated .gif?:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3yjbu
>
> I had wanted to add a graphic of a sound wave to my new site (created
> in Dreamweaver MX...which will be a resource site for digital musicians
> when complete); & to have it scroll across the page to resemble an
> audio track during playback in a computer-based digital audio
> workstation.
>
> I created the graphic myself; & thought I had it configured properly
> with an appropriate java script to scroll correctly...but when I
> uploaded the site, the script caused it to scroll beautifully,
> allright...but the cursor on the page undergoes a rapid-fire toggling
> between the cursor arrow & the hourglass.
>
> A java programmer tells me it's because the cursor is switching
> between normal & busy...because the code is making a server call at the
> same rate the script causes it to scroll.
>
> He suggested I would be better off with an animated .gif.
>
> In anticipation of this (it was going to be my first choice for
> implementation)...I made the graphic twice as long as the width of my
> page...so as to consecutively frame it for movement in an area as wide
> as the page.
>
> But that's as far as I got...I'm drawing a blank on how to get it
> done.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on the correct method for a wide
> scrolling animated .gif image?
>
> (I'm using ImageReady.)
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> mark4man
> 
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