Problem with dispose flag and animation

[metsfan666]

I'm working on setting up some animations. In the manual, i read that if the background stays constant, it's good to just display the background once, and overlay the animated parts on top.

So i have the following command

convert -dispose none -delay 1 background.gif -dispose previous -delay 25 image1.gif image2.gif image3.gif -loop 0 final.gif

When i look at final.gif through windows image viewer or through IE, the image looks 100% correct.

However, when i try to set that image is my buddy icon in AIM, it doesn't work properly at all. The end result shows the first frame, the background for just a moment and then disappears and i see image1, image2, and image3 with the correct delay. Then it repeats, background for a flash, then the three images. I always use icons that i make through IM for AIM but for whatever reason, this one seems to not work.

Any idea why it appears to look right in IE, but not in the instant messenger?

[anthony]

Some animators only work with some types of displosal.

For a full discussion of GIF displosals see..
IM Examples GIF animation basics.
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/