Splash Form - My contribution to the community

Would you like to acheived this?

http://www.geocities.com/emiliano_martin/Splash.gif

if you didn't see the image, try these links
http://emiliano.itgo.com/Temp_Images/Splash.GIF
http://www.geocities.com/emiliano_martin/Splash.gif
http://www.russellsplace.com/variant...es/splash1.gif

Ok, here's the OCX to do the gradient line that moves on the bottom of the form... all the rest would be your job.

Available Properties:

Count: Number of boxes between the initial and final color.

FinalBlue: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the blue component of the final color.
FinalGreen: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the green component of the final color.
FinalRed: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the red component of the final color.

InitialBlue: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the blue component of the initial color.
InitialGreen: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the green component of the initial color.
InitialRed: Number in the range 0–255, inclusive, that represents the red component of the initial color.

Interval: Returns/sets the number of milliseconds between each movement of the line.

ShiftEnabled: Enabled the ability to move the gradient line.


Please, any suggestion to improve this free OCX will be welcome. All I'm asking are ideas to improve it, and compliments (if any)

I know it's a lousy GIF, but I "compressed" it in order to get a "downloadable" file (154 KB). Hope you like it. I also know I've already post it... but I guess this way will be seen by more people ;-)

hmm.. u'r ISP did not want me to see that splasher Mc Brain

"You do not have permission to access http://emiliano.itgo.com/Temp_Images/Splash.GIF "

I'll download and look, but u should get that link fixed. :)

looks like you've been a bad boy peet because it likes me ;)

hmm... welll normally I am.. but today I really really did good :)

Don't worry Peeeeeeeet, cos it doesnt like me either. Mc Brain is obviously the one that was the bad boy... overloading their server with anime porn :eek: :eek: ;)

I've just added the Geocities link... let me know if you could see it. You've already seen it anyway.

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Originally posted by beachbum
Don't worry Peeeeeeeet, cos it doesnt like me either. Mc Brain is obviously the one that was the bad boy... overloading their server with anime porn :eek: :eek: ;)

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Yeah... my fault. Please forgive me ;)

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Originally posted by beachbum
Don't worry Peeeeeeeet, cos it doesnt like me either. Mc Brain is obviously the one that was the bad boy... overloading their server with anime porn :eek: :eek: ;)

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:D

hmm.. come to think of it .. u'r probl as bad as me... so... its us.. not McB :)

tried it McB, looks good :) (the OCX that is)

Is this it Mc Brain??? :D

lol doesnt work on Geo either

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=664512

I would attach it... but even the zip is 100 KB+. If U want I email the gif to you.

I don't know... if anyone has a good server, let me know.... so that I email it to you and give me the URL to paste it on the thread (or post the URL directly)

Send me the image via email, I will reduce it down and post it on my site, I will then return with the exact url to it. Here's my email [email protected]

Not relevant, what is A+ certification?

Go to www.comptia.org for A+ stuff

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Originally posted by hellswraith
Send me the image via email, I will reduce it down and post it on my site, I will then return with the exact url to it. Here's my email [email protected]

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There you go... hope your site is available to everyone.

Here you go, it is up there...
I didn't modify the picture at all, it is still around 150 kb in size.

http://www.russellsplace.com/variant...es/splash1.gif

I'll leave it up for you for a while.

Just in case you could not see the picture yet... here's "hellswrait's" image

http://www.russellsplace.com/variant...es/splash1.gif

looks great mc brain

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Originally posted by hellswraith
Here you go, it is up there...
I didn't modify the picture at all, it is still around 150 kb in size.

http://www.russellsplace.com/variant...es/splash1.gif

I'll leave it up for you for a while.

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Thanks... as you can see, I already posted that image, and include the URL in the first post.

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Originally posted by Motoxpro
looks great mc brain

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Thanks... the OCX or the splash? Anyway, thanks for the comment. ;)

Source is always good, for others to learn from, and to be able to fix up the bugs when they appear.

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Originally posted by Nucleus
Source is always good, for others to learn from, and to be able to fix up the bugs when they appear.

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Sorry, I left the source at work. And I'm not coming back until Monday. However, in the Splash.Zip of this thread you can see part of it.

It's not the source of the OCX there because I created after that, but that's the code I used to do it.

However... there's some differences. For example: I have three constants for the RGB of the initial color and 3 constants for the difference between the RGB's initial and final color.

In the OCX I have 3 properties for the RGB of the initial color, and 3 for the final color.

However... if you use that code to create your own OCX, or to improve an OCX for your own, I would love to see it (at least the OCX) and guess I deserve a line (in the aboutbox) stating your gratitude towards me for the original code. ;)

I help out all the time around here, and never ask anyone for credit...;)

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Originally posted by Nucleus
I help out all the time around here, and never ask anyone for credit...;)

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That's true... But I did ;)

Having an uneven number of boxes (the count property) makes it have a gradient going up then going immediately to the start colour.

Like this:

012345678901234567890123456789...

Instead of

012345678987654321012345678987...

I knew that... but can't fix it. Unless not until I get to work (where I have the source). If you read the code in the thread I told before you could see exactly why this happen. I'll fix it on Monday.

Thanks for bringing this up-.

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Originally posted by Nucleus
I help out all the time around here, and never ask anyone for credit...;)

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i don't either :rolleyes:

not that my posts are that useful anyway :(

humm what a constructive thread

yuo just had to make a post to it didn't you?

how do you make the background of the form do that gradient thing?

rofl

that's what this control is for, for doing that (i think)

uh no....you see on that picture at the bottom that scrolling gradient? thats what the control does...i'm asking about the background of the form.

The background is a BMP loaded from the resource file.

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Originally posted by da_silvy


i don't either :rolleyes:

not that my posts are that useful anyway :(

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Ok, sorry if everybody got "mad" for my comment. But, after all, it's up to you, if you don't feel like adding my name in the credits of the OCX's aboutbox, you won't do it... and I could do nothing to avoid this.

I asked it just in case... I guess the idea (the gradient move) is pretty simple (it can be coded better, though) so as to deserve a "thanks to".

how can we code it better without code to make better?

:p

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Originally posted by da_silvy
how can we code it better without code to make better?

:p

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Like I said before...

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Originally posted by Mc Brain
However, in the Splash.Zip of this thread you can see part of it. It's not the source of the OCX there because I created after that, but that's the code I used to do it.

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So, there you have the code to create the gradient, and movement. It's on one of the timers. And I'm sure it can be coded better because I coded that at 6 in the morning, after a 11-hour shift (working), and 1 hour more to go.... :rolleyes:

The only thing I'd ask is some way to get it below everything else (Z-Ordering doesn't work). There may be some way to do this by intercepting the paint event, and then drawing it there. That way, it COULD be behind other things.

Oh and for the copyright don't worry McBrain. I'm using it in my Download Client and I'm giving you full credit.

I don't know why the Z-Order doesn't work. After all, I'm paint lines over a picturebox. What you could try is to add a picturebox (with borderstyle set to none) and set this picture zorder.

About the copyright, I mean if you used the code to write your own OCX. I would like to get the credit for the original idea, or the code (you might get improved). But if you want to give me the credits anyway, I won't turn you down. ;)

Lol. Well, anyways I've just found out how to integrate with IE, so I'm happy about that. All I need to do now is add file resuming.

Great!

And maybe a "download only the files I need" would be great too. I mean, instead of downloading the whole pack of files, just check the files the user might need and download them.