Animated clip art to work on a form

[Ashley]

Is it possible to get the animated clip art to work on a
form?
Ashley

 

[Stephen Lebans]

Here is a previous post of mine on the ANimated GIf issue.

The easiest method is to download a 3'rd party ActiveX control. For
performance reasons, it's written in ATL and multithreaded, I like and
have used this one.
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/capacity/402/activex.html

For a listing of other controls have a look at:
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/gif.htm

You can also use the MS Web Browser control. Check the currently
installed ActiveX controls on your system.

Finally, for those situations where you do not want to use an ActiveX
control or just want to play a single Animated Gif as part of a splash
screen there is code on my site to do this in native Access VBA. No 3'rd
party DLL's required. The code is a bit dated now and does not include
support for Local Color tables that my latest version in VB6 does.
Update coming soon..it's my next project.(I've been saying this
forever!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm


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Stephen Lebans
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[Ashley]

Thanks Stephen,
I inserted an object from MS Clip gallery on my form. It
is a motion clip. I also look at
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm
But I have no ideas what to do with it. Could you show me
step by step?
Thanks
Ashley