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Multi-frame GIFs to clipboard or photos
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Do you have the app Workflow by DeskConnect? Also, how many frames are in the GIF?
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@Gerzer I do not have Workflow. Number of Frames can be anywhere between 4 and 12 or so.
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@Webmaster4o Thanks for the tips. I can do your first one, but getting back to the editor involves closing the app -- so not quite ideal. Your second idea is interestings... I will look into that.
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Then the solution I had in mind won't work. Oh, well. I'll keep thinking. :)
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It would work if you'd be willing to put down some money for Workflow. It's a great app and is quite useful for Pythonista users. I'm not trying to pressure you into buying it, though. Do so only if you want to.
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Here is a fully functional implementation of MFMailComposeView which lets you precompose an email, and attach a file. Any file type is allowed, although you will need to know the proper mime type name, such as image/gif, or application/zip for emailing zip files, etc. The user chooses to send or cancel from the ios mail composer.
The example main() shows also how this would work if launching from a ui-- you need to use
close
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@JonB Yes, this looks like an awesome solution. I see it uses the objc_util so I think that means I would need the beta, or else wait for the next release. But I think something like this is the long-term solution. Appreciate it!
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Using objc_util, which I really don't understand well at all, and working off examples I've found here and there on this forum, I feel like I almost have it.... just trying to put an animated GIF onto the clipboard so it can be pasted into another app.
Method 1 below (commented out) works, but when the image is pasted it is unfortunately a .PNG.
Method 2 allows you to specify image type. However, this does not seem to work at all. Clipboard is empty.
# coding: utf-8 from objc_util import * UIPasteboard=ObjCClass('UIPasteboard') pb=UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard() #method 1: works but creates a .png: #imgdata = UIImage.imageWithContentsOfFile_('test.gif') #pb.setImage_(imgdata) # method 2: does not work. pasteboard is empty imgdata = NSData.dataWithContentsOfFile_('test.gif') pb.setData_forPasteboardType_(imgdata, ns('kUTTypeGIF'))
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Method 2 should work if you use
'com.compuserve.gif'
(the UTI for GIF images) instead of'kUTTypeGIF'
. The latter is the name of a constant/macro, it would get replaced by the preprocessor if you were writing actual Objective-C code.I've tested this with an animated GIF, and was able to paste it in an email.
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It works! Awesome, thanks!