J
jerry
how do you get an animated .gif to work on an access form?
Thanks,
JB
Thanks,
JB
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M
Media Lint
I don't believe you can. The reason being that animated
gifs are actually "framed" gifs appended one frame after
the other. Most photo editors display this as a still
image because they only see the first frame. Your browser
detects these on a web page and uses whatever compuserve
authored process for rendering the animation.
You would have to use some specialized control above and
beyond a standard image control. You could probably get
the web browser control to do it, but I would wonder if it
would be worth it. Alternatively, you can use an AVI file
and embed the object. I tried, and embedding the gif as
an object doesn't do the trick. But I know that AVIs do
work.
gifs are actually "framed" gifs appended one frame after
the other. Most photo editors display this as a still
image because they only see the first frame. Your browser
detects these on a web page and uses whatever compuserve
authored process for rendering the animation.
You would have to use some specialized control above and
beyond a standard image control. You could probably get
the web browser control to do it, but I would wonder if it
would be worth it. Alternatively, you can use an AVI file
and embed the object. I tried, and embedding the gif as
an object doesn't do the trick. But I know that AVIs do
work.
S
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
years now!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm
--
HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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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
years now!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm
--
HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.