Android Question B4X Gif View How to Stop Loop

[Angel Garcia]

Hello all,
I've been trying this new B4XView and it works great but, i need a function or something to stop the loop of the gif or to set to Null to the control.
I have already tried:

B4XGifView1.mBase.SetBitmap(Null)

B4XGifView1.GifDrawable=Null

With no success, only thing to do like a "workaround" is to hide the gif with this:
B4XGifView1.mBase.Visible= False

Is there a better way?
Am i missing something?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[JohnC]

If the B4X Gif viewer doesn't have any kind of "stop" method, then you could take a screen shot of a frame from the gif (the frame that you like the best), and then when you want to "stop" the animation, load the bitmap of that one frame into the B4XGifViewer.

 

[Angel Garcia]

Hi John,
I just tried what you said but, now the snapshot bitmap is overlaped to the animation and still looping behind hahaha. ?
I think there should be a function to set to Null the GifDrawable, but i cant find the proper method.
Any other ideas?

 

[JohnC]

I haven't used the B4X Gif Viewer, but that might be a bug because if you load a new bitmap into it, it should replace the existing one.

 

[Erel]

This code is used in the Pleroma client to remove and immediately release images:

Consumer.GifTarget.mBase.GetView(0).SetBitmap(Null)
 #if B4A
 If Consumer.GifTarget.GifDrawable.IsInitialized Then
       Consumer.GifTarget.GifDrawable.RunMethod("recycle", Null)
End If
 #End If

 

[Angel Garcia]

Hello!
Thank you Erel,
You solution worked perfectly!!

To trigger the animation i used:

B4XGifView1.SetGif(File.DirAssets, "Graph_10s.gif")

And to stop it:

If B4XGifView1.GifDrawable.IsInitialized=True Then
        B4XGifView1.mBase.GetView(0).SetBitmap(Null)
        B4XGifView1.GifDrawable.RunMethod("recycle",Null)
        B4XGifView1.GifDrawable=Null
End If

Cheers!!