Animated gif in window play once

Shodan

Hello.

I want to play an animated gif and make it stop at the last picture.

        QMovie *title = new QMovie("windowLogs/myTitle.gif");
        QLabel *titleLabel = new QLabel(&mainWindow);
        titleLabel->setMovie(title);
        titleLabel->move(13, 13);
        title->start();

Using this code, the movie restarts again and again...

Is there a simple way to make the loop stop?

Thanks a lot.

apalomer

You can try using the object's finish signal and connect it to the object's stop slot.

Shodan

Thanks.

I tried it like this:

        QMovie *title = new QMovie("windowLogs/myTitle.gif");
        QLabel *titleLabel = new QLabel(&mainWindow);
        titleLabel->setMovie(title);
        titleLabel->move(13, 13);
        title->start();
        connect(title, SIGNAL(finished()), title, QMovie::stop());

But an error message comes:

cannot call member function 'void QMovie::stop()' without object
connect(title, SIGNAL(finished()), title, QMovie::stop()); ^

I watched different examples but can't figure out what'sgoing wrong.

mrjj

@Shodan said in Animated gif in window play once:

connect(title, SIGNAL(finished()), title, QMovie::stop());

Should that not be

connect(title, SIGNAL(finished()), title, SLOT(stop()));

Shodan

Great!
Thanks for the help.

Programming is pretty new for me, and many examples way to complicate yet...

Like this it works like a charm:

QObject::connect(title, SIGNAL(finished()), title, SLOT(stop()));

Shodan

Obviously it is also possible to disable or enable looping for animated gif files (and also set a repeat count) with free editors like "microsoft gif animator".