Visual Basic :: Run Animated Gifs In Toolbar ????

Animated Gifs In VB6
Hello Internet.

I'm going for my second year at college in September, and I was thinking of doing something for the Visual programming unit along the lines of a fighting game. I've already done something similar in Javascript, but the version of VB over here is fairly old and can't do graphics so well.

I've done two ways of making an animation in a form. The first is by using the WebBrowser control and navigating to the .gif file. The second is by using the image and timer controls. Every tenth of a second, the picture is changed to the next one in the animation using 'LoadPicture("picture.jpg")'.

For the Internet controls, is it possible to include transparency in the box, so the background isn't visible? It's possible to leave the form background blank, but that would mean having no picture there instead. The other problem is the border surrounding the box, which is a big distraction. Finally, is it possible to do relational addressing - so instead of giving the exact address (C:My DocumentsPictures....), it's possible to just link to the file from where the VB form is located? I've tried, but with no luck.

The image control is harder to use, but I've managed to make animations. The biggest problem though, is that thick black lines appear when a new picture is loaded. Is there any way to make the animation as smooth as any animated .gif using this control?

Cheers for anyone who helps.

Animated Gifs
i know this is a hot topic at the moment. i have read many posts and tried different user controls. some work, some don't and some just some of the time.

the ones that do work seem to work while the vb program is idle.

what i want to know, is there a way for a animated gif to continue animating whilst the main program is doing some intensive array work, my app is cpu and memory greedy. for example something as simple as displaying an open dialog box causes the gif to pause.

thanks for your help

adam

Animated GIFS Or AVI?
I'm looking for some advice. I'm working on a program which captures several screen shots in GIF format and sends them to a person as an instructional aid. I want to be able to give the person the ability to save the screen shots as a session. At first, I thought you could put the graphics into a database (Access) and recall them later for replay. I found that trying to put graphics in a table (OLE object) is problematic because, it seems, you can only activate the graphic in a program that associated with it, which is what I don't want to do. Then I thought it might be easier to get the individual GIFs and make one animated GIF out of them or convert the GIFs to BMPs and make an AVI file out of them. Can anyone recommend either an API call or an ActiveX control that could do this. Preferably, an ActiveX control would be nice.

Is Using Animated Gifs Possible?
I was wondering if using gif files in my game as animation
like is there a way to have them animate like they do in webpages on vb?

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Animated GIFs In VB
Hellp ppl

I have some animated GIF i used them in a visual basic form inside a picture box . The animation does not occur i only have the picture but not animatied( i.e the first frame of the animation only) Can u tell me whats the problem , and if possible how can i solve it ? THANKS

Animated Gifs
In visual basic can I add animated gifs such as the ones you might see on web pages.....???

if not what are some other alternatives?

Thank you much,
-Scott

Animated GIFs
How can I make an animated GIF play in a program?

Animated Gifs
Hey, I'm doing a project for school and we just started with VB. Is there anyway that we could insert an animated gif into our Vb Projects? We have VB4 and VB6 at our use. Thx!

Animated Gifs???
Hi,
It is a very disappointing thing to see that I can not use an "animated gif"
in a picturebox or image controller...But they work fine in IExplorer..

Is it possible to use an animeted gif in visual basic ?
thanks

Animated Gifs - Not What You Think...
I'm NOT asking how to show animated gifs in VB.

I'm asking if anyone has a simple/fast way to determine if a GIF
is an animated gif or a static (single image) gif?

I'm building a viewer, but every ocx I've found for showing an animated gif stops short of allowing the gif to be stretched or scaled.

So, I'd like to be able to determine if a gif is animated, then display it using an OCX, or use the VB Picture Box if it's not animated.

Thanks...

Animated Gifs
a lot of people on this forum have animated gif on their posts.

how do you go about creating one of those?

Animated Gifs
I highly doubt this belongs here, however, does anyone know how to download animated gifs correctly from IE? Whenever I download them I only get the first frame of the gif.

I Need Animated Gifs The Right Way, Anyone???
Hello,

I also want to use animated gifs in my project. Now I have searched, but the only things I find are:

1) Using a webbrowser control. No option to much memory using and a realy lame way
2) Using a timer and writing files to the hard disk. No option disk must not be used, cause I know it could be done else, and what if the file already exists....
3) Using the gif89.dll. No option, doesn't work fast enough and some problems with repainting in a transparant gif.

So has anyone a solution, but not one of the above??

Animated GIFs
Check out http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...411#post765411

i've not got an answer yet Anyone know an alternative ActiveX component to aniGif89 ?

Animated Gifs
Hello All,

Just a quick question, as an animated gif file is made up of many slightly different pictures being looped round to animate it, is there a way to say copy one of those pictures out of the animated gif.?

Any help/tips/ideas would be great,
Desire.

Animated Gifs
Can anyone advise on the easiest and smallest footprint method of adding an animated giff to a VB form?

Using Animated Gifs!!!!!
Hi just woundering how i can show an animated gif
within a VB Project???

Animated Gifs
How would you make a Animated Gif play when webbrowser1 is navigating and make the gif stop playing when it isnt navigating?

Animated Gifs
Hi guys,

How do some people create controls to display animated gifs? Are there api functions that will tell me the number of frames, how often the frames change etc.

Animated Gifs
Does anyone know how to use animated gifs on a vb form.

I am using version 6.

Also I need to countdown from Jan 2002 to 'Now'. does anyone know if there is an example of how to do this?, or suggestions

Animated Gifs
Is there any image control within VB that I can use transparent gif images where the transparent part actually works?

Also, will the same control also handle animated gifs? If not, is there another control for that?

Any help appreciated.

Animated Gifs In A Vb App
Does anyone know if it is possible to get an Animated Gif
to work on say a vb form??????

Animated Gifs
Is it possible to have animated gifs in VB. And is it
even possible to put them in a picture box? Note: I have
VB 4

How Do You Add Animated Gifs....
.....to a splash screen. I have an animated gif that
I would like to add to a splash screen that appears
before the user goes into a chat room.

I can save the image in a image box but there is no
movement. Am I not saving the gif correctly or will
VB not support what I'm trying to do?

Sorry if I'm not to clear with this...I'm definitely
new to VB.

Animated Gifs
How do i put an animated gif in vb? I know that there are readymade controls for it but i need the code to do it. Anybody?

Animated Gifs
http://www.animfactory.com

Plenty of online tools and links to other gif related sites.

HELP!! - Animated GIFs
Well... I lost the code that I had for using animated GIFs.
I was wondering if anyone had the code to run an animated gif in a vb project.. The animation is 100 frames long..

Any help would be most welcome! And thx in advance!

Animated Gifs ?
You must think that i very stupid, but i can't help it.

anyway does naybody know how to get animated gifs to work in a form.

Please Add Code As It Helps

Cheers

Merlin ?

Animated Gifs In VB?
How can I get animated gifs to run or work on my forms?

Animated Gifs
How do I add animated gifs to my VB form?

Using Animated Gifs
what's the best way to run an animated gif in vb?

Animated GIFs
How do you display an animated GIF (in a picturebox or image control if possible)?

Also, how do you stop the IE ActiveX control from having a border - I want to set its BorderStyle to 0 - None.

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Animated Gifs In VB
Hi all,

Does any one the best way to show an animated gif in VB.

Cheers
Mat

How To : Animated Gifs In VB?
Hello,

Does anyone know how to show an animated gif on a VB form?
If so, please let me know how - thanks!

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Darren Logan BSc(Hons)

Development Engineer

Animated Gifs?
i searched around to see if this topic already exist, but cant go through all 164 pages, so here it is...

How do get an animated gif to work on a form? everytime i bring the form up, there is no animation in the pic. i have looked through the properties and could not find anything.

Edited by - der_amerikaner on 6/23/2003 6:54:18 AM

Animated GIFS
Good Morning Guru's

Can anybody help with this one, I have created some animated GIFs which have a transparent background and would like to bring them onto my VB Forms, I have tried using the Media Player but it ignores the transparency, does have any ideas on the best way to achieve this ?

Animated Gifs
Can some help me to find out about how to create an animated gif activex control in visual basic. or if there is an activeX control avaliable for download.i have checked the 2 avaliable on download.com.

thanks

Animated Gifs
how would i play a animated gif ?

Animated GIFS?
Does anybody have a control for Animated GIFS? I can't get them to work in VB. Is there some property I need to set? How do I use them? Thanks!

Xemion

Animated Gifs
How do I control a animated gif. I mean I want to include an animated gif in my form how do i do it. Simply using Image Control makes it still, it does not show any animation.

I don't want to use any 3rd part DLL.

Can anyone please let me know about it??

Regards,

Vk

Writing Animated GIFs?
I wanted to know if there was any way to write and/or save Animated GIFs using Visual Basic 6. If there is, I'd have no idea how to write the code for it, and I wouldn't know the controls to use either. If you need to know what I want use this for, I'm making a GIF Animator where you can upload frames that you have saved on your computer and write all the frames as an animated GIF. If it's possible, (But I don't think it is) is there any way to paste an image from the clipboard in? (The most IMPORTANT part is that you can export the animation to GIF format.)

Animated Gifs In Access
Hi all,
Does anyone have any idea how to put animated gifs into an access form. I've suceeded using by inbeding mplayer2.exe as an object, but mplayer2 does not support gifs on all systems that I've tested it on. If I could get the Loadpicture command working I might be able to do it by spliting up the seperate gif frames. There must be an easy way. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Cabin Boy

VB6 Supports Gifs Animated?
Hello:

I'd like to know if any version of VB supports animated GIFs.

There's a way to add a gif into the form an it don't be static?
Or the VB doesn't accept animated Gifs?

Thanks.

Animated GIFS (kind Of)
I saw The Hands post in the code library for Animated GIFS, which works great (Good job whoever wrote it!). However, its a little too much for what I want to do. I run some processes that I need to know if they are still running. So, I want to put a simple animation on the screen to show its working (Other than the mouse hourglass). Is there a way I can use imagelist to do a simple 3-4 frame animation. I guess like going through the imagelist over and over until the process is done, perhaps with a do events after each image?

I hope I made sense <grin>

Running Animated GIFs
Does anyone know how to run animated GIF's in VB, on a standard form? I found a dll to do it, but it costs about 500 bucks.

Diver

Running Animated Gifs
I am wondering how to display an animated .gif file. Do i have to save each individual frame then use a timer to change the image? Seems like there has to be an easier/better way to do it. Thanks for any help.

MMcontrol.. With Animated Gifs?
Hey

does the multimedia control play animated gifs?
if so .. how?
thanks

l8er

Making GIFs Appear Animated
When using an animated GIF image and loading up a form, the GIF is still inanimate, is there an easy way to enable the animation (or do I have to use the GIFanimator program? If so, how do I actually use that?)
Thanks

Ps. To be more specific, I want the image to become animated after an event, for example the clicking of a command button.

Run Animated Gifs In Toolbar ????

How can I/can I run animated gifs inside a (ms Common) toolbar ?????