animations

[mafia_geek]

whenever i animate an image it always flickers, is there a way to fix that?

[Sastraxi]

Yea. Draw everything to an INVISIBLE picturebox (with AutoRedraw on), and then blit the entire picturebox (no CLS statement) onto a visible picturebox. Voila, no mess! Make sure to CLS the invisible picturebox, however.

[ThomasIngold]

Cool !!!

That's the info I always waited for !!!

Anyway: I'm in trouble !
The only thing I get when I try to copy a red line from one picturebox to another picturebox ( on the same form ) is a black square....

Here's my code:
Dim retval As Long
Picture1.Line (0, 0)-(200, 300), RGB(255, 0, 0)
retval = BitBlt(Form1.Picture2.hDC, 0, 0, 2772, 2772, Form1.Picture1.hDC, 0, 0, SCRCOPY)

What am I doing wrong ???????????????????

Any help woul be appreciated !
Thanks !

Tom

[Sastraxi]

Well you call Picture1.Line but then you call Form1.Picture1.hDC to get it's hDC... my suggestion to you is put Form1.Picture1.Line instead of just Picture1.Line.

[ThomasIngold]

Thanks for your help Sastraxi !

I did as you told me, but there's no difference...

Other idea ?!? ;-)

Tom

[Janus]

Create a visible PictureBox with AutoRedraw set to true. CLS it and draw to it, and then to show changed contents to the screen, call .Refresh. When a picturebox is AutoRedraw, it stores its image offscreen, and only updates it when you call .Refresh, preventing flicker.

[ThomasIngold]

Ok, it works now !

I always forgot to initialize the value for SCRCOPY...
... how stupid !!

Thanks guys !!!

[mcoll]

why U got a picture of michael shuemacker mafia geek?????

[Osiris]

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