I did all of that but I still had problems. I opened animtest.asc and saved it as animtest.gif but there is no animation. I set the width and height as 10, frames as 8, and delay as 20.
When you create the .gif you should have already predefined areas.
The .gif takes images from left to right, top to bottom. For example:
.... ...
.. .
the animator would take the four dots, then three dots, then two, then one.
Make sure your scaling is right for defining the size of the images, it can mess up a lot. Also I suggest deleting everything in the name box and manually putting in the name, followed by the extention. Otherwise it will say in the console that the file cannot be created (for the unstated reason that the name is not allowed)
and as a double help, hold ctrl to be able to drag around the workspace with your mouse.