Images Animation Sequence at Startup?

[MarkBasik4Android]

Please Help....:sign0085:
I am not able to do it right.
I whant to have a
animation at the beginning of my app...

I have a sequence of PNG images x001.png, x002.png.... x040.png ecc
that compose my animation...

How I can show image by image at the beginning?
Hot to set up the frame time? Can I put a pause/couter to set up a 24 frame per second for example?

I used code like:

....
Dim numerazione() As String
numerazione = Array As String ("00","01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11")...

to setup sequence I need

Than in the Activity_Create:

For x = 1 To numerazione.Length
ImageView1.Bitmap=LoadBitmap(File.DirAssets, "Image"&numerazione(x)&".png")
pause/controll?
Next


How to make it loop?
It doers not work!:sign0085:

 

[Informatix]

Use a timer. For each tick (=when a Tick event is fired), change the image.
If you want this to run smooth, preload all images before starting the animation.

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

Anim sequence?

Use a timer. For each tick (=when a Tick event is fired), change the image.
If you want this to run smooth, preload all images before starting the animation.

:sign0085: I am new and I have to learn!
This is what I did and I get errors can you help me?
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Sub Process_Globals

End Sub

Sub Globals

Dim ImageView1 As ImageView
Dim TimerMario As Timer
Dim ImageCounterVar As Int

Dim AnimationImagesNumbers() As String
AnimationImagesNumbers = Array As String ("00","01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11")
ImageCounterVar = 0
Dim AnimationImagesNumbersMax As Int

Dim labCONTROL As Label
End Sub



Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
Activity.LoadLayout("screen1")
AnimationImagesNumbersMax = 10 'How many images is the PGN set is the same of: AnimationImagesNumbers.Length ?
For animFrames = 1 To 10
TimerMario.Initialize("TimerMario", 1000) 'show it in 1 sec
TimerMario.Enabled = True
Next
End Sub



Sub TimerMario_Tick
If ImageCounterVar <= AnimationImagesNumbersMax Then

ImageView1.Bitmap = LoadBitmap(File.DirAssets, "image-"&AnimationImagesNumbers(ImageCounterVar)&".png")
labCONTROL.Text = "Control:"&AnimationImagesNumbers(ImageCounterVar)&"!" ' This is to print the Number of the frame diplayed
ImageCounterVar = ImageCounterVar + 1

Else If ImageCounterVar > AnimationImagesNumbersMax Then

ImageCounterVar = 1 ' start again from 1

End If

TimerMario.Enabled = False

End Sub



Sub Activity_Resume

End Sub




Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)

End Sub
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[MarkBasik4Android]

:sign0163:
A question about this forum...
It is good and usefull but... I am new and I have to learn....
I just posted a question about animation of a sequence of images and some nice guy anwered me ..... and said that is better to PRELOAD images....
so I searched the word PRELOAD in the forum to learn how to do it and what I find?.... My post !:BangHead:

 

[klaus]

When you post a project you should export it in the IDE menu Files / Export As Zip so we have all the files to test it.

Best regards.

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

When you post a project you should export it in the IDE menu Files / Export As Zip so we have all the files to test it.

Best regards.

:sign0013:
Here it is!
with images and all....

 

[klaus]

Did you add to your post ?

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

Images Animation Sequence at Startup v001.zip WAS 1.6mB!
My image are in total 1.5 Mb .. Maximun upload is 350Kb!
I rescaled images (150 pixel instead of 480)... and here the file.

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

Did you add to your post ?

Sorry .. I di not noticed the limitation to 350Kb!... now I uploaded it
Why this limitation?

 

[walterf25]

Here you go

This should work, give it a try

cheers,
Walter

View attachment Test AnimIntro2.zip

 

[klaus]

Here you are:

Best regards.

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

Images Animation Sequence at Startup - OK works

:sign0089::sign0089:
I did it Alone!
Now it works.... I just make some errors...

Can you help me with some emprovements?

1: Can you suggest me an elegant way to write:

AnimationImagesNumbers = Array As String ("00","01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10")

.. and a faster way if I have 1000 frames?

2: It is possible to have a transition between frames.. like a cross fade?

3: The number 100 means 1 sec?
TimerMario.Initialize("TimerMario", 100) 'show it in 1 sec
This second is the same no matter the power of the hardware?
no less than a 1/100 of a sec?

4: It is so complicate?
There is not a simple way like : play images in X folder?

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

Here you are:

Best regards.

Thanks Klaus...

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

This should work, give it a try

cheers,
Walter

View attachment 13776

And.. thanks walterf25

It is good to see a place where people help without asking money....:sign0089:

 

[MarkBasik4Android]

1000 = 1 sec
10000= 10 sec
60000 = 1 min
41 = 24 frames per second 1/24


TimerMario.Initialize("TimerMario", 41) '24 frames per second 1/24 * 1000

 

[Informatix]

:sign0163:
A question about this forum...
It is good and usefull but... I am new and I have to learn....
I just posted a question about animation of a sequence of images and some nice guy anwered me ..... and said that is better to PRELOAD images....
so I searched the word PRELOAD in the forum to learn how to do it and what I find?.... My post !:BangHead:

Preload means "load before". A preloader is a program or a function loading data before they are used (in a predictive way). It's a technical term (example of use). A preloader usually feeds a cache.

The error would be to load your images while you want to display them. That would take time and so your animation would become choppy.