anyway to autoplay the GIFs?

[mas-iota]

anyway to autoplay the GIFs?

[maxrottersman]

I'm having a similar problem. My GIF won't start on page load. The Stop Start buttons from the example code work fine. I've tried all variations of:

//manual.toggle();
//manual.stop();
manual.start();
document.querySelector('.start').click();

Page here: https://maxdatabook.com/staticpages/docaa_example01.html

[mas-iota]

@maxrottersman I gave up using the autoplay, however, I think what interrupts the autoplay is the responsive: true option. When it gets scaled to width: 100% interruption occurs. Try to disable the responsive option and see if it gets fixed, then do a workaround to make it scale 100% width.

here's what I ended up with: https://trends.jawab.app/Mahmoud-8o/post/5f60d859357c0

[maxrottersman]

Thanks! Yes, when I set responsive: false it runs on page load, but then I can't get the buttons to work, even if I try to set responsive back to true multiple ways. I'm no js expert.

[nickforddev]

I'm wondering what you are hoping to accomplish here. If you are looking to autoplay the gif, and then allow the user to pause it on click, that is a new feature that will have to be considered in the core library, mainly because the default control mechanism is hover, which doesn't really fit an autoplay model.

[maxrottersman]

I don't look a gift-horse in the mouth ;) Yes, I want it to start as autoplay and then have some way for a person to "freeze" the frame so they can look at it more closely. My animated GIFs are charts. If they have to hit a button to start, I'd just as soon create HTML movies or JS slide shows. Anyway, I've moved on. But if the developer creates this feature I'll revisit.

[mas-iota]

@nickforddesign Nothing much, except for (I will write the same issue again):

1. GIF is getting paused after programmatically playing it.
2. As @maxrottersman has mentioned, setting responsive to false disables controls somehow.

It's up to you not to add such a feature, but I think it's important to fix issues found in the "core library"
cheers

[nickforddev]

An important limitation of this library is that it is not able to actually "pause" a gif on a frame other than the first frame. This is due to browser security in regards to CORS and while not all gifs are hosted on a different domain than your own, it is an important enough use-case for us to keep it simple.

If this limitation is a deal breaker for you, I will probably close the issue. If not, let me know and I can add an autoplay feature that allows for clicking to "pause" gif (albeit on the first frame).

[maxrottersman]

Thanks for the update! I would need it to pause on the frame they're looking at. It seems yes, you should close this issue, but I hope you put these issues in your documentation or that example page. Maybe say you can't have a GIF auto-start and then pause it. But you can use your great library to play and pause them if one likes. Here's the piece I wrote on creating animated GIFs in Excel, though I pulled back and mostly cover creating stand alone GIFs.

https://medium.com/@maxrottersman/animated-chart-gifs-excel-creator-104894d15d01?source=friends_link&sk=ac149e406a4f090d681b76c004555a6d

Again, thanks for the library! It may still come in handy for me one day!

[mas-iota]

No problem getting back to the first frame in my case. Thanks for the efforts!

[nickforddev]

Fair enough, I will add more clarification to the documentation! Maybe at some point if I have time I can create a special version of Freezeframe intended for gifs that you host on your own domain, which would allow for actual frame parsing and pausing on a specific frame.

I've added a ticket to update the docs: https://github.com/ctrl-freaks/freezeframe.js/projects/1#card-47483175

Thanks! Lmk if there's anything else we can do to help.