animations

[nick99]

What is a good way to display animations in a form?
currently i am using the way which i have many frames in a form and each frame contains one picutre. I have a subroutine which will change the different frames' visibility at interval of 0.5s as a result the sequence of pic became animations. However at a high cost of hard disk space.

[nick99]

Hi,
Thanks for giving me suggestion, but my group leader insists on using gif as the main source because we have the function of playing video clips too.... I found an ocx created by one of the vb programmer which enable gif to be played in vb however it's sizing problems.... I will email you a copy perhaps u can take a look.

[dmuir]

Making your animations into .AVI's or compressing them into .MPG's is a good way to save on CPU resources and depending on the rate in which you make them it will save on hard disk space.

The real advantage is that you will have smoother looking animations at a relatively low cost to your resources.

You can use the Windows Media Player control under projects-components in the menu bar in order to play these files.

If you can't make your files into movies and you still want to call out to individual files, just write back and I will post any help that I can.

good luck,
dmuir

[dmuir]

If you are having resizing problems, you might want to check out Larcom & Youngs Resize.ocx on the site www.vbxtras.com

If you have a sample of the code you are having problems with I can take a look at it if you e-mail it to [email protected]

dmuir

[SteveCRM]

What control are you using, send it to [email protected]

Steve