Re: Custom emoticons - animated GIFs - not valid image file error

Some 'firewall' programs are known to have a setting to prevent animated
gifs from 'animating'. You might want to check if this setting is enabled
(i.e. some versions of Zonealarm has this feature among others).

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"Tuppence" <Tuppence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi

I have tried lots of different things to try and get around this odd
problem, from different file sizes, to different pixel dimensions, to
different GIF optimaztion options, but nothing works.

When I try to add a custom animated GIF emoticon, it gives me this
meaningless error. Everything else displays the GIF perfectly, so it's not
an
invalid file!

Also, when it does accept one of my custom emoticon animated GIF files, it
plays them terribly: with some it only loops the first two or so frames of
the animation, with others it misses 80% of the frames and only plays the
remainder but with no contiguous frames, or the image is distorted
(although
it hasn't shrunk it, it's under pizel size limit), colours are messed up,
or
it completely ignores the frame delays that everything else takes notice
of.

A search on the net shows lots of others are suffering this problem. What
is
wrong with the program?!

Thanks


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