illustrates how to make an animated gif file and view it

{
//
// This script is a slightly modified version of hsum.C
// It produces an animated gif file. See comments below

  gROOT->Reset();

  c1 = new TCanvas("c1","The HSUM example",200,10,600,400);
  c1->SetGrid();

  gBenchmark->Start("hsum");

// Create some histograms.
  total  = new TH1F("total","This is the total distribution",100,-4,4);
  main   = new TH1F("main","Main contributor",100,-4,4);
  s1     = new TH1F("s1","This is the first signal",100,-4,4);
  s2     = new TH1F("s2","This is the second signal",100,-4,4);
  total->Sumw2();   // this makes sure that the sum of squares of weights will be stored
  total->SetMarkerStyle(21);
  total->SetMarkerSize(0.7);
  main->SetFillColor(16);
  s1->SetFillColor(42);
  s2->SetFillColor(46);
  TSlider *slider = 0;

// Fill histograms randomly
  gRandom->SetSeed();
  const Int_t kUPDATE = 500;
  Float_t xs1, xs2, xmain;
  Int_t gifcnt = 0;
  for ( Int_t i=0; i<10000; i++) {
     xmain = gRandom->Gaus(-1,1.5);
     xs1   = gRandom->Gaus(-0.5,0.5);
     xs2   = gRandom->Landau(1,0.15);
     main->Fill(xmain);
     s1->Fill(xs1,0.3);
     s2->Fill(xs2,0.2);
     total->Fill(xmain);
     total->Fill(xs1,0.3);
     total->Fill(xs2,0.2);
     if (i && (i%kUPDATE) == 0) {
        if (i == kUPDATE) {
           total->Draw("e1p");
           main->Draw("same");
           s1->Draw("same");
           s2->Draw("same");
           c1->Update();
           slider = new TSlider("slider","test",4.2,0,4.6,total->GetMaximum(),38);
           slider->SetFillColor(46);
        }
        if (slider) slider->SetRange(0,Float_t(i)/10000.);
        c1->Modified();
        c1->Update();
        char gif[24];
        sprintf(gif, "hsumanim_%.3d.gif", gifcnt++);
        c1->SaveAs(gif);
     }
  }
  slider->SetRange(0,1);
  total->Draw("sameaxis"); // to redraw axis hidden by the fill area
  c1->Modified();
  c1->SaveAs("hsumanim_019.gif");
  
  //make an animated gif file using gifsicle.
  //for information about gifsicle, see http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/gifsicle/
  gSystem->Exec("gifsicle --delay=10 --loop=5 hsum*.gif > anim.gif");
  gSystem->Exec("rm -f hsum*.gif");
  
  //You can view the animated file anim.gif with Netscape/IE
  //or with gifview as shown below (finish by typing "q" in the window)
  //for more info about gifsicle, gifview, see above url or do
  // gifsicle --help     gifview --help
  gSystem->Exec("gifview -a anim.gif");
  
  gBenchmark->Show("hsum");
}