Limited Blogging
Sorry about not blogging like normal. The reason is I am working on a new book and have been putting my time and energy into that.
The book is looking at examples working with Ajax. (No not the cleaner)
Eric Pascarello
Moderator of HTML/JavaScript at www.JavaRanch.com
Author of: JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Dynamic Web Pages
You've been programming too long when ...
When you are counting objects, you go "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".
When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.
When your wife says "If you don't turn off that darn machine and come to bed,then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause.
When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page.
When you look for your car keys using: "grep keys /dev/pockets"
When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.
When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want.
When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.
When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the math in octal.
When you dream in 256 colors.
Insert Animated Gif Into PowerPoint
Today the web girl at my work was trying to insert an animated gif into PowerPoint and it would not work. After some investigation on my part, I realized that PowerPoint has some major issues.
Animations work if they are looped and they will not stop even if you have them set. If you have an animation set to run one time. It will not run, it normally sits on the last frame when displayed.
So the solution is this. Set your animated gif to loop infinite. You are going to have to make the last frame time span as long as possible. If you need more time, repeat the last frame multiple times. It is a pain, but this keeps the animation from looping.
You may also have to adjust your time between frames. PowerPoint freaks out with times around .1 seconds. Make it .2 seconds and it should run.
Well hope this tip helps since I could not find a solution to this problem.
Eric Pascarello
Moderator of HTML/JavaScript at www.JavaRanch.com
Author of: JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Dynamic Web Pages