Opening gif images

[Sting]

I have two lines in my main program:

	int bar = gdispImageOpenFile(&colonImage, "Colon_10_64.gif");
	int foo = gdispImageOpenFile(&oneImage, "One_40_64.gif");
	fprintf(stderr, "Colon: %d, %d\n", foo, bar);

if I execute them in this order the print result is:

Colon: 0x8005, 0

If I swap the order of foo and bar the result is:

Colon: 0, 0x8005

Is there a problem with opening more then one gif file?

[Joel Bodenmann]

There is no problem with opening multiple GIF files at once. The only two things that can keep you from successfully opening multiple files at once are:

• You hit the maximum number of files that can be opened at once. That number is specified with GFILE_MAX_GFILES in the configuration file. Choose the number as low as possible to keep the resource requirements at a minimum.
• You don't have enough memory left to open more files.

As the error return code you get from gdispImageOpenFile() is GDISP_IMAGE_ERR_NOSUCHFILE, you are most likely hitting the first issue. Just increase said number in your configuration file and you should be fine.