animated icon in status bar of form?

[Flashster]

How do I put a custom animated icon on the status bar of a form? I have an
animated icon file called icon.ani, and I've tried getting
'statusbar1.Animate' to work with no success. Can someone give me some
pointers please?



Thanks,



Flashster

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How do I put a custom animated icon on the status bar of a form? I have an
animated icon file called icon.ani, and I've tried getting
'statusbar1.Animate' to work with no success.

What's 'statusbar1.Animate'? The 'StatusBar' class doesn't have an
'Animate' method.

 

[Flashster]

Sorry you're right again. I got confused there.

So how do I go about adding an animated icon - it allows .ico files to be
placed in a panel but not.avi or .ani?

Do I override the drawing routing for the status panel?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

So how do I go about adding an animated icon - it allows .ico files to be
placed in a panel but not.avi or .ani?

You could use a timer control to change the icon periodically.

 

[Flashster]

Why didn't I think of that. I'll give it a go.

You could use a timer control to change the icon periodically.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Why didn't I think of that. I'll give it a go.

If you have any further questions on this topic, feel free to post them
here.

 

[Flashster]

Thanks Herfried. The user the timer method was quite simple and worked a
treat - thank you.

I now need to change the colour of my status bar from the control color it
seems to default to. My form uses a custom color and so I need it to match.
How would I do this - would I override the 'ondraw' routine, then create
appropriate brushes?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I now need to change the colour of my status bar from the control color it
seems to default to. My form uses a custom color and so I need it to
match. How would I do this - would I override the 'ondraw' routine, then
create appropriate brushes?

See:

<URL:http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/0941b58dbcff7a76>

 

[Flashster]

Can I just clarify - you are talking about using a panel control (rather
than a status panel) here?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Can I just clarify - you are talking about using a panel control (rather
than a status panel) here?

No, the statusbar control can display status bar panels. However, I believe
that the method demonstrated in the referenced article cannot be used to
change the color of the complete control.

 

[Flashster]

Ah, so it won't help me then as I want to change the status bar to look like
the form (not just the panels).