GIF Player

This function will display the animated GIF's in the figure window

Description

This is a GIF player, which will play your animated GIF's in the figure or gui window.

Demo : gifplayer; %plays the animated crystal.gif file provided with this submission

Usage:
ex: gifplayer('animated.gif',0.1); %delay is in seconds

There could be more enhancements to this program which could be added on, so comments most welcome from the readers.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)
• Other requirements: 1.Tested in R14SP2 for windows XP, have not tested on other platforms. 2.Users having Image Processing ToolBox will have better results.

[Jos x@y.z]

That you created this in a hurry, does not mean that you have to post it directly. The FEX can wait ...

The use of appdata should be avoided.
A delay of 0.2 causes an update every 0.5 seconds ???

[Vihang Patil]

Thanks Jos
Well it was a typo error that I didnot update the comments part. So the delay of 0.2 sec causes an update after 0.2 sec only. Thank you for letting me know that.
Well regarding using appdata, I am not quite sure how to pass variables in the other function with the "@" sign , so had to use this alternative. If you could modify it and let me know later at your convenience, it would rather help my knowledge in passing variables to a function

[Rahul Gandhi]

This is what I wanted

[John Hopkins]

Nice Utility.

[Troy]

I was going to use this to display a loading icon, which works fine if I put a break point in the code. The problem is that it freezes when the rest of the code executes. Is there a way to make it work in parallel?

Thanks

[Daniel]

Works alright. I can't put it in a GUI created with GUIDE though because it overwrites the GUI data handles structure. Can you help me out with an easy way around this?

[Daniel]

Hi, got it to work in my GUIDE GUI by making it add to the existing handles structure rather than overwriting it. Maybe this should be the default behavior.