An animated logo question.....

LoLth

Hi (again.. is it just me or do you get the impression that I have not a clue what I'm doing??)

anyway, I was mucking about with doing an animated banner... it looks ok but I really have to find a decent lightning effect... anyway, I was sort of hoping that when the banner animation runs through once it stops (fair enough - quite easily done) in a "set" state. However:

1. I don't want people to have to re-run the banner every time they reload the page (once per day would be fine). I'm going to use an inline frame for the main body sothe interface can stay where it is without reload.

2. I would like to have the banner display information about the links on mouseover.
way I think of it, animation then "solid" banner with a rollover function.

so the main question is, how do I get the banner to run once and then bugger off to be replaced by a still image so the animation doesn't have to be re-run on mouseout ?

does this make sense?

It's nothing important, just a muck about site I'm making to practise my photoshop and html/javascript skills.

thanks,

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PhilipMarlowe

I have no idea, but you mentioned a frame...
can you have the animated banner in a page that gets meta refreshed after the animation is finished to a page that has your static mouseover banner etc...? Is this possible or practical or am I talking worse shíte than ever...?
But wouldnt you want your navigation to load first though... i dunno...

logic1

I assume u mean an animated gif banner type thing and not a set of different banners u want to change. For an animated gif banner simply use gif construction set and one of the options is to continually loop animation. This will ensure your banner keeps looping... to do the mouseover it's impossible to mouseover a section of a gif banner unless u made it in a few diff sections which is just difficult so the easiest thing to do would be to make a table for your banner and set the table background to your gif banner e.g. <td background="../banner.gif"> then in this table place any objects or text u want to have the rollover effect but do it in such a way as they blend in with the background banner... if its only text then u can use a CSS to provide the hover color change.. if u want to alternate gifs on mouseover then obviously you'll have to use javascript.

.logic.

[This message has been edited by logic1 (edited 07-12-2000).]

LoLth

hmmm,

I want the banner to run through once. Got that done.

then I want it to change when the mouse goes over one of the navigation buttons. and change back to being a logo without running the animation all over again.

that meta refresh idea is pretty close to what I'm thinkng of (but I don't really want to use a frame).

what i'm looking for really is a way to load the page, run the animation once and when it has run through replace it with a static image that will be the default.

some sort of "onload" function?

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Bard

I dont completely get what you're saying, but here's my take on it...

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copy out the last frame of the anim and save it as a seperate file.

using javascript put an onmouseover on your nav link buttons which loads another image into the src of the banner ad.

in the same way, use an onmouseout which loads this seperate file copy of the final frame of the anim into the src of the ad.

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- have I interpreted your question right? ... does that do it?

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