Windows people of DU, can you help me out?

[Redstone]

I'm making an animation (probably animated GIF) for one of my clients to run on a Windows laptop connected to a flatscreen TV in their booth at an upcoming tradeshow.

I don't know a durn thing about Windows; I do run XP Pro under Virtual PC on my Macs, but the only thing I use it for is to see how the Websites I develop work and look in Windows.

1) Is there a cheap or free Windows program that will run an animated GIF or Flash animation full screen, without the navigation bars and stuff that you see when running it in IE or Mozilla?

Or, 2) Is it possible to set IE or Mozilla in Windows so there aren't the fat blue bars at the top and bottom?

Thanks in advance.

Redstone

[canetoad]

1. Yes

Windows Picture and Fax viewer (built into Win XP) will do this. The animated gif needs to be in a folder on its own. Right click gif, select Open with/Windows Picture and Fax viewer. To get full screen hit F11 or 'Start Slideshow' icon - 5th from left on bottom.

I thought Irfanview would do this, it does everything else, but it seems not.

[Redstone]

2. Hey, thanks. Irfanview makes the animation look like crap, and yes,

I was surprised at that as well.

Redstone

[Gore1FL]

3. I have a cheezy workaround

make several different pictures (which is what you need to do anyways for an animated GIF)

The make powerpoint that quickly changes the pages and loops back to the beginning.

[Redstone]

4. Cheezy, maybe, but I did think of doing that, and thank you for the advice;

it would indeed be able to run full-screen, wouldn't it?

Though I think I might use Acrobat's slide-show capabilities instead; I've been able to avoid PowerPoint (without question the #1 source of boredom in the U.S. for the last ten years), and would like to keep it that way.

But hey, thanks again for the good advice.

Redstone

[DaveJ]

5. In IE or Firefox, just press F11 for fullscreen

Not sure if F11 is on a Mac keyboard though.

Edit: You also need to turn off all toolbars (in the View menu) and make sure only one tab is present for this to work.