Bruce 2009-11-05 15:38
Hi,
I spent hours making a animated gif only to find out that Ultramon's wallpaper Desktop panel won't allow .gifs in like the normal Windows Desktop panel does. Is there a setting I can change somewhere in Ultramon that will allow an animated gif to be able to be opened as a wallpaper? Windows lets it happen so you'd think Ultramon would be able to do it if it's an upgrade from the standard..
*crosses fingers
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Christian Studer 2009-11-06 10:44
Regular GIFs will work fine with version 3 of UltraMon, but animated GIFs aren't supported.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Bruce 2009-11-06 11:19
Well, when I choose the .gif in the regular desktop panel that comes with Windows XP, it doesn't say animated before it, but when I pick '.gif' from the list and then choose an animated .gif to put in there, it starts animating. Are you sure that it won't work? Perhaps if I just go ahead and choose it and load it in, it will work!? worth a try i guess.
main reason i replied is i wanted to ask you if version 3 (i guess it's beta right now, right?) will still work with Windows XP or not? I don't have Windows 7 yet..
lemme know, thx..
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Christian Studer 2009-11-07 08:57
Not with UltraMon, UltraMon takes the images you selected and creates a bitmap (.bmp) file which then gets used as the wallpaper.
The 3.0 beta supports Windows XP (also Windows 2000), no longer supported are Windows 98/Me.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Bruce 2009-11-07 14:58
Great, thanks.
You think a future version of Ultramon might include an option for animated .gifs? I love Ultramon, it works great, but I wish it had that feature.
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Christian Studer 2009-11-08 06:22
It's unlikely, UltraMon needs to be able to put multiple images into a single image file, which probably won't work with animated gifs.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Nate 2009-12-02 14:08
I don't see why the animated gif won't work(with a little tweaking), or do you mean it's not worth the trouble to make it work. It was surprising to me that it didn't support it in the first place.
Rev. Nate
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Brian 2009-12-20 12:02
Animated gifs as you know consist of several layers that are then tweened. In order for Ultramon to do it's job correctly with animated gifs it would have to import the other images used on other monitors onto the stage of the animated gif for each layer.
As the number of monitors and depth/complexity of the images grows the bigger the wallpaper file will be and the more processing power will be needed to drive the wallpaper. More than likely it would have a crippling affect on the system.
It's not to say it wouldn't be worth the time to figure out, but in the end, the amount of time invested vs the benefit gained is net zero or less.
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