[RESOLVED] Load and show animated gif

[Dry Bone]

I had this really cool class to load every frame of an animated gif.
Then using a timer, I could show the frames.
This class has been relying on OleLoadPictureEx to load each frame constructed on memory.
Well, it doesn't work anymore, throwing error 0x8000FFFF - "Catastrophic failure".
M$ must have done something to "improve" this function and the results are really showing up.
So, I've tried using WIA instead - no luck there either.
So, I guess I am looking for a new solution for loading each frame of an animated gif.

[VanGoghGaming]

Pretty sure those OleLoadPicture family of functions can load only bitmaps. I thought GIFs were a different format (compressed)... Maybe you could share the class here though?

[qvb6]

See this thread for alternatives:

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....ted-gif-frames

You may want to post code that duplicates the problem if you still want to use the same method.

[Dry Bone]

See this thread for alternatives:

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....ted-gif-frames

You may want to post code that duplicates the problem if you still want to use the same method.

Well, this is just fantastic!

I've replaced my code for loading frame with WIA code in this link, and kept my old code to extract frames' duration, and now everything work fine!

And I thought I'm in for a long torture...

Thanks!

[Dry Bone]

I thought I will share this class here for anyone interested.
It can rotate, flip, resize, change animation rate.
Instructions included in code.

[fafalone]

You can display/flip/rotate with just a few lines using IShellImageData too:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ore-No-GDI-DLL

I made a UserControl that simplifies it even more; it's meant primarily for tB and VBA, but you could copy the code and use oleexp.tlb instead of the in-project defs in VB6 or compile a 32bit OCX:

https://github.com/fafalone/ucAniGif