Gif Animation. Delay seems to get ignored

[jimbojones]

Hi,

I am using the following code to generate an animated gif. The code worked with a previous version of ImageMagick (a version about 2 years old) but the current version does ignore the delay I want to set.

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        convert ( c:/banner.jpg ) -respect-parenthesis ^
        ( -font Arial -fill grey -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 10 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 1" ) ^
        ( -font Arial -fill black -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 200 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 1" ) ^
        ( -font Arial -fill grey -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 10 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 1" ) ^
        ( -delay 300 -clone 0 ) ^
        ( -font Arial -fill grey -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 10 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 2" ) ^
        ( -font Arial -fill black -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 200 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 2" ) ^
        ( -font Arial -fill grey -strokewidth 2 -pointsize 20 -delay 10 -clone 0 -annotate 0x0+15+20 "Frame 2" ) ^
        ( -delay 300 -clone 0 ) ^
        -delete 0 -loop 0 -layers optimize c:/banner_animation.gif

Whats going wrong?

Thanks in advance
jim

[fmw42]

what is your exact version. there were some old releases where -delay had problems. it should work with current versions, though I have not tested your code.

[anthony]

-delay is only applied to new images that are read in or created through a 'coder' of some kind.

It is not applied to in-memory or cloned images. Use -set delay for that


Suggestions of how to make this differentiation for the furture IMv7 Shell API is welcome.

[jimbojones]

It is not applied to in-memory or cloned images. Use -set delay for that

works great. thank you!

[jimbojones]

nvm