Need Help with Animated Gifs. Please

[Louis Herndon]

Hello,

I am trying to make graphically pleasing forms. I have
been trying to insert animated gifs. If you insert as an
image, just the top image shows, with no animation. I
dloaded Gif89.dll, an OLE class ActiveX tool that I
thought would help me achieve my goal. Does anyone know
how to use this tool or am I going about completely the
wrong way. How do I put animated gifs on forms. Please
help.

 

[Dorian]

In my view an animated GIF on a form is going to annoy
lots of people. Forms are no place for animation unless
you are designing a game.

 

[John Vinson]

Hello,

I am trying to make graphically pleasing forms. I have
been trying to insert animated gifs. If you insert as an
image, just the top image shows, with no animation. I
dloaded Gif89.dll, an OLE class ActiveX tool that I
thought would help me achieve my goal. Does anyone know
how to use this tool or am I going about completely the
wrong way. How do I put animated gifs on forms. Please
help.

You've asked this question again and again, Louis; the reason nobody
has answered is evidently that nobody knows a good way to do this - I
certainly don't.

Just speaking as a user, I would find animated images on a data entry
screen very disconcerting and offputting, not appealing. Of course my
tastes differ from those of other people, but you may annoy as many
people as you attract if you do succeed in this!

 

[Louis Herndon]

Thank you for your responses. Just in my defense, the
animations would be on a command button form only
(multiple selects for different areas) not on the data
entry forms.

 

[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
ever!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm


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