Whats the best way of displaying an animated gif, except the web browser control?

[DarthCooper]

I think thinking of like an intro screen for my app? Are there any decent controls out that'll embed an anim gif into my form? The web browser is crap for this as you need a speciic path and it never fits in with the back ground colours of my form.

Thanks,

Darth

[Nucleus]

Well you can't change the backgroud colour of the animated gif, and you can use app.path instead of a fixed path to load the gif into the webbrowser, which fixes both those problems.

You can also search www.planetsourcecode.com.

[MerryVIP]

I think there was GIF89.DLL somewhere. Even though it's DLL, it appears to be a control. I can't remember where to get it...My work day ended I must go now. Try looking with Google

[DarthCooper]

app.path? So if I did use a web browser control and I wanted it to load the gif at form_load, how would I state this? Something like:

Webbrowser1.Navigate "App.Path\opening.gif

or something similar?

Darth,

[alex_read]

The app.path statement will look in the same folder that you're running the exe / your program from.

Not the best solution, but you would use :
Webbrowser1.Navigate App.Path & "\opening.gif"

[DarthCooper]

Ah ha, thats works cool. Thanks! Yes its not the best method but it'll do for now until I find another method Thanks for your help folks.

darth

[HeSaidJoe]

Haven't really played with this..found it once but never bothered to check it out...works, that's all I know. Zipped Attachment.

[DarthCooper]

Nice, I will try and adapt it for use in my app, thanks HeSaidJoe :P

Darth

[DarthCooper]

On second thoughts, after looking at the code.....

Darth