i was just wondering, when you are useing the program Visual Basic is there any way to add some animation to a form, and if so what is a good(cheep) animation program i could get?

I am going to be learning VB next year so I'll need to pay attention to this for some good pointers.

Refer to following articles for more information:

• http://visualbasic.about.com/od/learnvbnet...ecvbsbs1701.htm
• http://www.eastcoastgames.com/VBA/Intro.htm
• http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Fionnuala.ODonnell/VB...9_animation.ppt (very good and comprehensive presentation)
• http://www.vb-helper.com/index_multimedia.html (animation section)

As far as I know, you can create an animated gif image or flash file then embed them into VB form. Here is one of many tutorials on the net http://www.anim-fx.com/flash-tutorials/insertvb6.html

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Heheheh. This is easy. Very easy.

Quick Solutions

In VB6, you just need the default controls. Importantly, the Image control (not picture control using that would kill the cpu) and a Timer control.

Prepare the slides of the animation. You could do this by taking frame by frame shots of a movie, gif animation, etc. Best way to experiment is with... STICK FIGURES!!! (fine, be Van Goh if you want. But you'll die at frame 3)

Rename the frames from 1 to say 32 same file extentions (say .bmp) put it in a folder called Animation1/
Then, create one image control (I hereby declare this control by its default name, Image1).
Next, add the Timer Control (blah blah blah as above, Timer1)
Set the timer's interval. This will become the the animation's frame interval.
Set the timer's enabled to false if you want to pause it, set to true for resuming.

Then add this nifty code to the same form as the controls:


There. With the extra function you can go to any frame within the range by calling it up. You do this by entering the code:
Frame_GoTo('frame no.')
Ta da! The simple animation ready to roll.

Second Alternative: Create a .avi, .mpeg or .mp4 file and embed it with the program. Instant animaiton. Eats the RAM though, so be careful.

the visual studio 2005 professional version comes with animations that have to be installed as a optional item. They include all of the animations that were used in earlier versions of windows and include ones like the file copy dialog, file delete, upload to ftp, download files et etc. They are pretty simple but it that is something you are looking for, they can be useful.

because they are so large i cannot post them here on the board, but i will try and put them up on my astahost site. ill reply again when they are up! the zipped version is rather large (2.03MB) so be warned!

also, since you can embed almost any gif animation into a vb form then any animated gif that you come across on the internet you could possibly use. There are many sites (i wont list them now, but do some googling and you'll find some) that give away animations for royalty-free use.

but remember, the more animations and pictures that you add to your forms, the slower the form is going to become to load which will in effect slow down your entire application, so use wisely!

good luck
-jimmy

where is my mistake?
Visual Basic Help

I'm trying to complete this code and I'm getting the code from the book.
The code is: Private Sub Form_Load()
' Initialize the label's text
Dim strLabel1 As String
Dim strLabel2 As String
Dim StrLabel3 As String
Dim StrLabel4 As String

StrLabel1 = "use frames if you want"
StrLabel2 = " to group options together"
StrLabel3 = " Each frame forms one set"
StrLabel4 = " of option buttons"

LblFrames.Caption= strLabel1&strLabel2&strLabel3&strLabel4

End Sub

Now the problem is with the last line , it didn't accept the ampersand after every string name . If you can help with that , please reply. Thank you

-question by new student

The solution is very simple, just add spaces between the string names and the & signs, like this:

LblFrames.Caption = strLabel1 & strLabel2 & strLabel3 & strLabel4

how can i chang extention to each other ? for example how a program written bye vb can convert a gif file to jpg, or other ? this is project for my teacher i have to done.