animation and sound effects through vb...urgent

hi all,

this is very urgent!! i want to know how we can achieve animation of some images and how to produce sound effects throgh vb program. is it possible? if yes, i want to implement that in my project. so pleeease help!!

thanks in advance..

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ilikevb

do you already have the animations and you just need to play them? or do you want to be able to render them?

hi dimava,

no.... i dont have the animations. i have to load the images and give some animation effect to them. is it possible?

thanks
ilikevb

You can load all of the images into an imagelist and then use a timer to load the images into a picture box after a cetrain interval, if you need more specific code, you'll have to give me more info

hi dimava,

thanks a lot for the quick reply. i will try first what u have told. then if i face any problem, i'll definitly ask u.

thanks again
ilikevb

yes... dimava seems to have a good solution. thats how i would have done it. If i just put an animated gif or bmp into my file, it only shows it as a 1 file, not animated.

If anyone knows how to make animated pictures animate in vb, i wud be greatful :)

Thanks,

You can use Microsoft Internet Controls in your app. to animate animated gifs etc.

A neater way is to use a control called "Gif89 1.0" (I think).

You may have to hunt that control down because I believe it doesn'y come as standard.

ilikevb: as an option to image list, you can use a resource file. The resource file could also contain the sounds you want to play.

Quote:

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Originally posted by TheBionicOrange
A neater way is to use a control called "Gif89 1.0" (I think).

You may have to hunt that control down because I believe it doesn'y come as standard.

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I presume you were talking about this:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...d+gif+tutorial

hi dimava,

i tried by the imagelist and picturebox. but it's giving error like
"invalid use of property" :mad: i am sorry but i dont know how to load image from imagelist to picturebox. could u please send me the code? i am giving my code what i have tried. u please tell me where i have gone wrong...
thanks
ilikevb

VB Code:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Dim i As Integer
i = 1
If i <= ImageList1.ListImages.Count Then
Picture1.Image = ImageList1.ListImages(i)
i = i + 1
Else
i = 0
End If
End Sub

????:(

Try using

VB Code:

Set Picture1.Image = ImageList1.ListImages(i)

hi amitabh,

i tried with ur statement. but it still gives the same error:
"invalid use of property"
does it have some another method to load image from imagelist to picturebox? i cant find it. please help!!

ilikevb

hi,

use animation control to animate the images or take timer control on form and take all ur images in an array and display it in picture control.

for sound use sndPlaysound API call or Playsound API call..