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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Lona on June 25, 2004, 22:27

Title: Animations
Post by: Lona on June 25, 2004, 22:27

I can't see any movement on animations. I can see movement on signatures but not on the smileys. I have found this is not just on here but elsewhere as well. Any suggestions how I can correct this. ???

PS Even Bart keeps his trousers up.  ;D

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Sandra on June 25, 2004, 23:44

Does that happen in IE as well as Mozilla Lona as it sounds like a Mozilla type of problem  ???

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Lona on June 25, 2004, 23:50

It happens in both. I can see the animation at the bottom of this screen ( smillie face which changes to red lips). Could be this new firewall I have installed. I will keep checking all the different settings to see if there is something I've accidently blocked.
   ???

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Simon on June 26, 2004, 00:01

Has this just started happening without adjusting any settings, Lona?  In Mozilla, there's an option under Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Images (see below), but in IE, I think you can only show images, or not, in which case you get the box with the red x in the middle.

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Lona on June 26, 2004, 00:11

Thanks for that Simon. :) Checked preferences and it looked the same as yours.

I can see the images, it's just that they are not animated.  :(

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Simon on June 26, 2004, 00:18

Did it start happening immediately after installing the new firewall?  I would have thought it unlikely to affect images, but to eliminate it as the cause, how about trying a different one?  I'll probably get the p*** taken out of me, for recommending a good product (funny, I thought that's what we were here for), but this one is very useable...

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apax34.dsl.pipex.com%2Fsygate.jpg&hash=d316d3fde976972e6f2af10f1faf8079e7d27218) (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Lona on June 26, 2004, 00:19

I think I have solved my problem. Well I hope I have. I had blocked animation in new firewall.

It's strange that I could still see all the movement in the signatures. ???

Title: Re:Animations
Post by: Sandra on June 26, 2004, 00:30

The sigs are .swf files while the smilies are .gif files, thats probably why Lona  :)