Simple question about LOOPING ...

[odintheterrible]

Hi,

Can anyone explain to me why Xara3D will not accept the correct looping figure of '0' (zero) for a continuous loop ???

Every other gif program I've ever come across uses the zero (o) tag for a continuous loop yet when I try to set the looping option to '0' before exporting the gif animation it always defaults to '1' !

This is very annoying !!!!!

THanks

[HayTay]

Odin,

First of all, welcome to TalkGraphics.

Now to answer your question, I hope. To get continuous looping just uncheck the box for 'Loop' in the 'Animation Options' section. That should make your animation loop continuously for you.

IHTH,
HayTay

[handrawn]

EDIT:

hey Harry - you are right

As there is a static export option it does make sense - the animated option has to loop, or it 'aint animated

[odintheterrible]

Cheers ! ... guess it's the early onset of Old Fart's Syndrome creepin' in ! lol

[HayTay]

No problem. It happens to the best of us, at times. I'm glad I could help you get 'looped'. Now that you've joined the rest of us at TG, I hope to hear and see some more from you.

Have some fun,
Harry

[jclements]

What about for SWF export.

Could someone hack the export in a Flash Editor to make continuous looping SWF.

Seems this should be an option in Xara3D ... unless I am missing something.

[handrawn]

no expert me on flash - but I always understood flash looping to be set at the user end - your animation exported as flash loops in IE8 ok, provided I have it set that way in the browser....

[jclements]

I was thinking of embedding the flash into PowerPoint on the Title page, that is why I wanted it to continuously loop. I can do a GIF but doesn't display as well a flash.

Similarly, in other apps that allow embeddng a SWF, continous loop would be desireable.

John

[Soquili]

Hi John,

How about exported from Xara3D6 as an avi animation. You can specify you want it to loop within PowerPoint. In my tests the .avi is one fourth the size of a swf file from the same Xara3D6 file.

[Soquili]

If you are using the Shockwave flash player ActiveX control in PowerPoint to play the swf file:

1. Right click the ActiveX control.
2. Click Properties in the popup menu.
3. Set the Loop property to True.