spider661

i want to load a animated gif in App.Path & "\pics\ants_2.gif" on keypress A but i cant figer out 2 things..

one how to get keypress on formload im guessing and how to make it animated its already an animated pic but when i put it into a pic box manually and load the form its not moveing is there somethign you got to do to make it load animated gifs..

can someone please help me with this code.

thanks

drutger

Set the forms keypreview to 'true' and then under the forms keyup event you can write the code if keycode=vbkeya then....
cant help you with the animated gif thing thou

spider661

Ok i set keypreview to true and useing this code

but nothing hapening not even the msg box

drutger

try it in the keydown event and use the code i said: if keycode=vbkeya then...

And you can load your pic into a webbrowser with the code webbrowser1.navigate (App.Path & "\pics\ants_2.gif") but you'll probably get the bars on the right and bottom side.

spider661

that worked great even the pic loaded but its still not animated i got to go to work ill try the browser later thanks

mrjeffy321

Animated gifs can be a pain, as my experience show, however, you do have options.

An animated gif can be broken down into individual [non-animated] frame. When the frames are switched back and forth, it appears to move. So what you can do is break the gif up into its component pictures (I have seen web sites that will do it for you and then you just save each picture, and there are probably other ways), then you can load eacj picture into a picture box and then cycle through them changing the current frame's visibility to true and all others to false.

You can also use the Web Browser control. This will take advantage of the web browser's ability to play animated gif images, just navigate to the image location.

Another possibility is to use the animated gif control (I think that is its name), this is a glorified picture box that allows animated gif images to be show animated, however the disadvantage to this is that if you use it free, each time you run the program it will let you know that your using someone else's control in the form of a message box. Or you could pay.

There are probably a couple more options I havent thought about, and each of the ones I presented here have their own advantages and disadvantages, see which, if any, you prefer.

hDC_0

From the last time this animated gif question was asked (which happens at least once every couple months), this thread has some links to free animated gif controls/code:
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/t234089.html