animated gif for splash screen

[titanandrews]

Hi,
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to use an animated gif in a splash screen? I managed to do it with an Active X control supplied by VS 6.0., but I would rather not use Active X. It was interesting how they did it. When I added the control onto the CDialog, it automatically converted the .gif to a .ico. I didn't realize icon files could be animated.

I thought maybe I could use CPictureHolder, but it only takes bitmaps and icons.

Of course I will experiment myself, but if anyone has done this before and can offer suggestions, I would greatly appreicate it.


many thanks,

Barry

 

[Zyrenthian]

Possibly use a CHTMLView in the splash dialog? (just a guess)

Matt

 

[Johnroh]

You can use CPictureHolder to indicate where you'd like to place the gif, but you will probably need to look at IPicture and COM to do the actual drawing. I found a pretty good freeware package named CPictureEx that works well with gifs, but I can't remember where I picked it up. Just search Google for PictureEx.