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Yes yes, I'm seriously! GIF is not protected by copyrights law anymore since 2004: http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html
I'm aware that there are some methods of reading GIF in PB, using low level reading or OLE, but none of these methods is multiplattform-compatible. LoadMovie is a way, but for Animations and not for static GIF images, and grabbing the pixels of animated GIF frames does not work.
Any Chances for this?

did you use the forum's search?

Yes, I had, and found some results for UseGifImageDecoder() (not in feature request, but I was not searching far enough), but no definitive answer (yes/no) from Fred, only from freak a #false statement: "GIF is dead".
At least PB supports now transparency, so it is ready for GIF...

LCD wrote: At least PB supports now transparency, so it is ready for GIF...

No, thats wrong.
PureBasic supports transparency for a long time. The new thing is the alpha channel. GIF don't support alpha channel.

in fact, GIF transparency is a one-color-masked transparency like SetTransparentSpriteColor always was.

Kaeru Gaman wrote:in fact, GIF transparency is a one-color-masked transparency like SetTransparentSpriteColor always was.

Oh, I understand, the new addition is a 8 bit - 256 level transparency, the old was only 1 bit no transparency or full transparency.

well, no.
the masked transparency just renders one of the 256 palette colors as transparent, nothing more.
in GIF it is just a Flag in the Header and the index number of the concerned color.

in RGBA each pixel has four channels, Red, Green, Blue and Transparency, each a value of 0-255.
it's something completely different *BOOOM*