I have an animated picture but it is in GIF image format and I want to make it turn to a animated BMP image. I need to do this because I want to make an animated DesktopX Object. Do you guys know or have any program that can make my GIF image turn to a BMP iamge. I had try microsoft paint already and it doesn't work, all I get is a still image.
Can you Plz Help me. Thank you
No such thing as an animated BMP. Second why wouldn't you just convert to png? That's the way I do it.
Two programs:
1. Bitstrip (old but like) converts to horizontal or vertical strip containing all frames into one gigantic bmp.
2. GifSplitter.
Animated BMP? How big would the file size would be?! Maybe you're talking about a GIF
There is no such thing as animated bmp
Maybe you should convert all the frames from that Gif animation into Bmp format... and than use em in desktop x. Wich seems pretty weird to me... why don't you use another format... like png or jpeg ? If you want transparency, use the first, if you don't, use the second and you'll end up with a smaller widget and less ram consumption.
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Forgot one thing. If you are going to use a masked bmp (oh but why?) then DesktopX includes an utility for this (don't ask never used myself) called AniUtil.exe.
Here's the way I do it using Bitstrip & GIMP. Quick, simple easy.
1. Run Bitstrip
2. Browse to GIF file
3. Select Horizontal output.
4. Save to bmp
5. Open bmp in GIMP
6. duplicate layer
7. select background
8. cut background
9. delate first layer
10. save as png.
As for the DesktopX scripting that's for another category but, Stardock has plenty of tutorials & good manual to cover that.
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