Animation and sound in a form.

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In form view, is there a way that I can have a giff file animate and have a
sound file play upon opening a form in form view. Reason being I am
developing my own organiser database with calenders and reminders etc. and I
have worked out a way to have a form open up in pop up mode at a certain
desegnated date and time (this will act as a 'reminder' for various
previously entered duties) and I am hoping to play a sound and have a little
giff file I've created animate upon this form popping up.

Does anyone know a way I can achieve this?
 
To play a WAV or MIDI file, see http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0011.htm
at "The Access Web".

To play an MP3, see my November, 2004 "Access Answers" column in Pinnacle
Publication's "Smart Access". You can download the column (and sample
database) for free at http://www.accessmvp.com/djsteele/SmartAccess.html

As to animated Gifs, to quote Stephen Lebans:

"The easiest method is to download a 3'rd party ActiveX control. For
performance reasons, it's written in ATL and multithreaded, I like and have
used this one.
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/capacity/402/activex.html

For a listing of other controls have a look at:
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/gif.htm

You can also use the MS Web Browser control. Check the currently installed
ActiveX controls on your system.

Finally, for those situations where you do not want to use an ActiveX
control or just want to play a single Animated Gif as part of a splash
screen there is code on my site to do this in native Access VBA. No 3'rd
party DLL's required. The code is a bit dated now and does not include
support for Local Color tables that my latest version in VB6 does. Update
coming soon..it's my next project.(I've been saying this for 6 months now!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm"
 
Thanks so much. I downloaded that ActiveX control GIF89 and it's perfect.
Thanks again.
 
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