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Animated GIF--Loop Just Once?
I created an animated GIF in Adobe Fireworks. It's a gauge with a needle that moves from the 6 o'clock position to the 12 o'clock position, using 16 frames ('states' in Fireworks parlance). I set the animation to run just ONCE; the needle rotates from 6 o'clock and stops at 12 o'clock. I tested the animated GIF in my Web browser and it works as expected.
When I insert the animated GIF onto a Storyline slide, however, the animation loops forever. It loops in Preview mode and also when I publish to Web (HTML) output.
Does Storyline recognize and respect the 'looping' setting contained within an animated GIF file?
Hi, everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released an update for Storyline 360. In Build 3.90.32850.0, we’ve included important fixes and new features. One of the bugs we’ve fixed is:
- GIFs didn't replay on revisited slides that were configured to reset to their initial states
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here!
Hi Ashley,
Thanks for the update. It looks like I can't download the newest update. When I Check for Updates, I receive, "There are no updates available at this time."
Any thoughts about that?
Thanks so much!
Hi Walt!
I would recommend downloading from here.
Hi Walt,
If you're seeing that message, perhaps you're already on the latest update? That's what I understood you to be saying in your earlier post today? You can check that by going to the Help tab -> About Articulate Storyline. You'll see a pop up appear there and in the top right hand corner will be the update number.
You ladies ROCK!
Thanks a bunch!
Hi Alex,
Thanks so much for sharing your workaround in this thread! This will be helpful for future readers of this post!
Have a great day and happy developing! ✨
I show this conversation as being 8 years old. Has Articulate updated Storyline to stop the looping?
Hi Tim!
While I don't have an update to share at this time, there have been some workarounds posted earlier in the discussion that other users found success with.
Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions!
Can you at least tell us if Articulate is trying to work on this or has this been ignored?
10 years in and this issue hasn't been fixed, yet!
In case anybody is looking for a way around this,
I had a gif, but I needed the animation for one element. I looked at it from a layer's perspective and saved the one image without the element, then added the element separately to Storyline, and then added animations to it.
It's not as neat an animation as original, but that was the only way I thought it could work.Hope it helps.
I've basically tried all the workarounds people have come up with in the last 10 years and none worked...
Any news on this ever-present (shall I call it "looping"?) issue ? It is really annoying !
Please Articulate !
Hi Rosaria,
We don't have any new updates to share on this feature, but I may have a workaround that you can use.
You can add a state to your GIF file of a JPEG version of your animated image and then just change the state of the object to this custom state once a full 'cycle' of the animation completes. This will make it look like the animation has stopped for the GIF file. I've attached a sample project file so you can see how this can be done.
I used Microsoft Paint to convert the GIF to JPEG while retaining the image's exact resolution.
Let me know if you have any questions!
