oh, interesting.

What is p/50 if I may ask?

if you're asking what that literally means, it's a post id. you can put it in the url to jump to that post (char.social/p/50)

if you're asking what post that is, it's a suggestions forum posted by choom

oh, Id din't know you could do that. I'm honestly not super knowledgeable about this website, so yeah, I didn't know there was a suggestions post. Thanks for letting me know

oh yeah therese ids for users as well, i've referenced post ids a lot because it's an easy way to show people posts

hoping that in the future post ids will be clickable

essentially the idea is just some kind of maybe markdown?? that lets you desegnate frames, so it loops through sections of text like frames

The way I usually do this is in a spreadsheet. I put each frame in a cell and then create a self-referencing formula using iterative calculation. This updates any time a change is made (including pressing backspace on an empty cell) and resets to 1 when it goes above a certain value. Using some other logic in another cell, it uses this counter to display frames sequentially, so it runs through them when you press backspace, the framerate depending on how fast you press, or if you hold it

Ideally tho, on a website, the idea is that you would have some way of inputting each frame, marked as being a frame in a sequence, and then when you post, it cycles through them, maybe with some way to specify framerate

If you're familiar with Google Sheets formulas, here is the formula I use for the counter (assuming the counter is in cell A2):

=IF(A1=TRUE, 0, IF(A2+1>3, 1, A2+1))

This first checks to see if A1, a tickbox used for resetting the animation and keeping it from updating, is ticked. If it is, it sets the counter to 0 until it's unticked.

If the reset box is unticked, it checks to see if incrementing the counter will go above the number of frames in the animation (in this case, 3). If it does, the counter is reset to 1, letting the animation loop.

Finally, if both above conditions are false, it increments itself by 1.