Preserved Topic: Stopping GIF Animation

Because my host's stats package stinks, I've recently chosen to use WebTrends Live to track my stats.

Unfortunately, however, I have to link to an image on their server in order to make the tracking work. I don't mind the image so much (after all, they're providing a service for free), except that it's perpetually animated and quite annoying.

Replacing the image with a still version is not an option. So, is there a way to force an animated GIF to stop?

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You know, I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but I could NAME the animated image and use an onLoad to swap it for a still after the page loads.

That way, it could still call the image from WebTrends' server to register the hit.



[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 11-25-2001).]

Wes: Or make the image tiny or turn off its visibility and replace it with a frame of the animated gif.

Emps


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You can also do this in another way (instead of swapping images). You can load WebTrends image with JavaScript (i.e. "myImg = new Image();") and it won't be shown at all. Also, you can replace old image with your static version so that you don't break their license agreement, which says that you must have a visible link to their web site. Oh, and one more thing - I would be very careful with all this since it also says that modifying WebTrends' HTML code is not allowed and will permanently disable your account. They might crawl through all web sites from time to time to check whether their code is still present / unmodified or not. And we don't know what they are checking, so even the smallest modifications (like adding NAME parameter) may disable your account...

And now to the code itself. You'll notice that WebTrends uses one string variable (called "W") to store parameters, which will be passed to the ASP script that returns their button image. Also, notice the SRC parameter of the image that's generated through document.write() function. Now add the following above those document.write() function calls:

webTrendsImage = new Image();
webTrendsImage.src = "put URL from image SRC parameter here, without '+W+' part" + W;

The line from above should look something like this (I took this code from some other web site that uses WebTrends):

webTrendsImage.src = "http://statse.webtrendslive.com/S008-00-11-15-206230-36429/button3.asp?" + W;

And modify document.write() that generates image to suit your own needs...