Animated (MS) ClipArt - MS Access

[Guest]

Hi experts

Wonder if you would kind enough to offer a bit of advice. I'm OK with MS
Access and have produced quite a few databases. BUT now
one of my clients wants to include an animated clipart (US Flag) onto his
switchboard that he downloaded from Microsoft.com. I have tried Sooooo long
to get this thing to work and "I can't".

Private Sub Form_Load()
???? , etc, etc - I'm stuck
End Sub

Any help or tips would be REALLY appreciated.

Many Many thanks

Mike

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

To quote Stephen Lebans:

"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 for 6 months now!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm"