Animated GIF Slide Extraction Browsing Tutorial

Animated GIF Slide Extraction Browsing Tutorial

Animated GIF Slide Extraction Browsing Tutorial

As of the recent Animated GIF Slide Extraction Primer Tutorial‘s progress with an Extraction of a User Nominated Animated GIF Slide web application’s …

  • input animated GIF URL modus operandi … today we add …
  • local operating system file browsing method of user animated GIF entry

… approach to our web application’s functionality abilities in a changed second draft extract_ag_slide_huh_of.html Animated GIF Slide Extraction web application (or Animated GIF Slide Extraction via User Interaction web application version) helped out, especially via PHP’s acceptance of HTML form method=POST data, by …

… or via arrangements below.


Previous relevant Animated GIF Slide Extraction Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Animated GIF Slide Extraction Primer Tutorial

Animated GIF Slide Extraction Primer Tutorial

Would you believe …

  • the extraction of an HTML video element still is not too hard using that HTML video element object as the first parameter to a [canvasContext].drawImage method call (as you might recall reading the recent Canvas DrawImage First Parameter Primer Tutorial) … whereas …
  • the extraction of an HTML animated GIF image (ie. img) element still is a lot harder, regarding only the clientside Javascript side of web applications because using that animated GIF img object as that first parameter to a [canvasContext].drawImage method call results only in the first still (or slide) of that animated GIF

? And so, to proceed with our “Animated GIF Slide Extraction” web application where a user can ask for the still (or slide) to be honed in on, needed us to design it so that a …

… looking arrangement could fulfil our requirements, so far, where the user can supply …

  1. [animatedGIFimageFileName] … and …
  2. slide number to extract (which can be entered as a percentage, being as our “HTML and Javascript parent (clientside) web application” logics are capable of determining an animated GIF’s …

    • number of slides (PHP extracts) … and, albeit not needed so far, with this project …
    • duration of an animated GIF “run through”

    )

… in …


var ij=0;

/** @param {Uint8Array} uint8 */
function isGifAnimated(uint8) { // thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69564118/how-to-get-duration-of-gif-image-in-javascript#:~:text=Mainly%20use%20parseGIF()%20%2C%20then,duration%20of%20a%20GIF%20image.
if (origgifloc == '') { origgifloc=gifloc; }
pbefore='';
//ij=0;
let duration = 0;
for (let i = 0, len = uint8.length; i < len; i++) {
if (uint8[i] == 0x21
&& uint8[i + 1] == 0xF9
&& uint8[i + 2] == 0x04
&& uint8[i + 7] == 0x00)
{
const delay = (uint8[i + 5] << 8) | (uint8[i + 4] & 0xFF);
duration += delay < 2 ? 10 : delay;



if (doit || gifloc.indexOf('%') != -1 || 1 == 1) {
ij++;
doit=true;
gifloc=origgifloc;
pbefore='' + ('gifloc=' + gifloc + ' and duration=' + eval(duration / 100) + ' and ij=' + ij + ' ');
if (origgifloc.indexOf('%') != -1) { gifloc='' + Math.round(eval(eval(gifloc.replace('%','')) * eval('' + ij) / 100.0)); }
//document.title='' + pbefore + ' ... ' + gifloc;
}
}
}
if (eval(duration / 100) <= 0.11) {
return 0;
}
//if (gifloc.indexOf('%') != -1) {
// alert('' + eval(duration / 100) + ' vs ' + delay);
// gifloc=gifloc.replace('%','');
//}
if (1 == 5 && canextract > 0) {
alert('' + eval(duration / 100));
} else {

var newimg=new Image();
newimg.onload = function(){
ih=newimg.height;
iw=newimg.width;
document.getElementById('dimg').style.width='' + eval(1 * newimg.width) + 'px';
document.getElementById('dimg').style.height='' + eval(1 * newimg.height) + 'px';
document.getElementById('dimg').style.background='linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.9),rgba(255,255,255,0.9)),url(' + gifurl + ')';
//document.getElementById('dimg').style.backgroundPosition='' + iw + 'px ' + ih + 'px';
document.getElementById('dimg').style.backgroundPosition='0px 0px';
document.getElementById('dimg').style.backgroundSize='' + newimg.width + 'px ' + newimg.height + 'px';
document.getElementById('dimg').style.backgroundRepeat='no-repeat';
document.getElementById('dimg').src='#';
document.getElementById('dimg').src=gifurl;
document.getElementById('mygimage').style.opacity='0.1';
};

newimg.src=gifurl;
goi=document.getElementById('mygimage');
goisrc=gifurl;
document.getElementById('mygimage').src=gifurl;
//newimg.src=gifurl;
setTimeout(function(){
jjform = new FormData();
jjxhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
document.getElementById('agname').value=gifurl;
document.getElementById('mygimage').title='Finding slide ' + eval(1 + eval(eval(-1 + eval('' + gifloc.replace('%',''))) % ij)) + ' of ' + ij + ' ... please wait ...';
document.getElementById('slidenumber').value='' + eval(1 + eval(eval(-1 + eval('' + gifloc.replace('%',''))) % ij));
jjform.append('agname', gifurl);
jjform.append('slidenumber', '' + eval(1 + eval( eval(-1 + eval('' + gifloc.replace('%',''))) % ij)));
jjxhr.onreadystatechange = oneslidedu;
//jjxhr.responseType = "Document";
jjxhr.open('post', './agtoslides.php', true);
if (1 == 1) {
if (eval('' + document.getElementById('agname').value.length) < 400) {
//document.getElementById('dimg').style.opacity='0.1';
document.body.style.cursor='progress';
document.getElementById('myif').src='./agtoslides.php?agname=' + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('agname').value) + '&slidenumber=' + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('slidenumber').value);
} else {
//document.getElementById('dimg').style.opacity='0.1';
document.body.style.cursor='progress';
document.getElementById('mysub').click();
}
} else {
jjxhr.send(jjform);
}
}, 5000);
}
return duration / 100; // if 0.1 is not an animated GIF
}

… and to try this out you can turn the iframe below into a user interaction one via a click below

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