Displaying GIF files - Have we lost this possibility?

[ubacher]

In IM5 we had a panel for displaying GIF files. Have we lost this? Or is it hidden somewhere?

[Jingo]

It does appears this functionality no longer exists.  The help refers to the "GIF App" but that does not appear to exist.

I'm sure I could throw something together that would play the file if you click a button.. but Mario may know of some method through IM to do this already...

[Mario]

I have not ported this sample application to IMatch 2017.
Displaying animated GIF files is not something that is required often for a DAM application and I did not see a need demonstrate IMatch app developers how to display an image.
I have removed the single mention of the GIF app from the help for the next release.

If there is demand, please add a feature request. It is not hard to write an app which displays a file.

[Mario]

I've just creates a new GIF App for the next release.

Very simple, it just displays the currently focused file and the file name below it.
There is a small button which allows you to scale the GIF to 100% App Panel width.
I even created a new icon for it



Check it out and let me know.

To install:

Extract the contents of the attached ZIP into the

C:\ProgramData\photools.com\IMatch6\webroot\imatch\apps\ => C:\ProgramData\photools.com\IMatch6\webroot\imatch\apps\gif-app

folder on your system. The app will show up in the App Manager a few seconds later.

[Jingo]

Nice App... you beat me to it...   

[Mario]

Nice App... you beat me to it...   

Yep. Sunday - play day.
It's pretty simple. The key part is to request the 'original' file from IMWS, not a cache file. Cache files are JPG or PNG, not GIF.

[ubacher]

Works great -thanks.