[AccessD] Using Animated GIF file on a form

On 16 Jun 2003 at 15:38, jeffrey.demulling at usbank.com wrote:

> Is there a way to use an animated GIF file on a form?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any comments, suggestions, etc.
> 

Just had a quick look at this one.  You can do it with an AVI using 
the Microsoft Animation control. That means that you will have to 
convert your animated to gif to avi using one of the available 
conversion tools.  Here's a few possibilities:

Shareware/Commercial ware:
Gif Construction Set from Alchemy Mindworks
AVI-GIF from http://www.fileheaven.com/AVI-GIF/download/582.htm

Free for non-commercial use: 
fmp141.zip from http://hem.spray.se/joakim.slettengren/


Once you have converted it to an AVI it's a case of:

On a form, select Insert - ActiveXControl and Select "Microsoft 
Animation Control Version 6.0" or whatever version you have.

Then you just need to use three methods

Load the animation into the control with:
ActiveXCtlAnim.Open  "avifilename.avi" 

Run the animation with:
ActiveXCtlAnim.Start and ActiveXCtlAnim.Stop


There's a demo of using the animation control in A2K at 
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/Misc/A2kAnimDemo.zip 
(it's only 23K zipped up). 

Just unzip the .mdb and the .avi into the same directory and open the 
.mdb

 
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