Graphical animated buttons 1

[monkey666]

afternoon

I need to create "fancy" buttons for a client GUI (heavy on the G), that have a rollover effect - like in flash, e.g on mouseenter a the button graphic rotates through 360 degrees.

I've been considering a few options:

1 use Videoframe class from the VFP samples classes as the button and play a 1 second video clip (as the button)

2 use an animated Gif as the button, any ideas how to display the animation VFP 7 since the standard image control doesn't animate. I thought of creating a mini, button sized-html document with the animated gif within it.

Any ideas?

monkey

 

[Mike Gagnon]

monkey666

2 use an animated Gif as the button, any ideas how to display the animation VFP 7 since the standard image control doesn't animate. I thought of creating a mini, button sized-html document with the animated gif within it.

You can show an animated gif in VFP by using the Internet Browser Actitvex control, that you place on your form and in the init of your form use something like:
THISFORM.oIE.Navigate("c:\mygif.gif&quot

Note on faster computers you may need to slow down the animation, in order to show properly.


Mike Gagnon

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[monkey666]

morning

Thanks for that - i was intending to use the web browser control but didn't realise you could set the filename directly to a gif file (hence i was going to create an html document with the gif as imgsource).

I used the web browser control in VFP & VB with the gif as the filename and both returned an unspecified error of 0x8004005 before showing the animated gif. I then added & tried other web components and found the MS SCRIPTLET control (MSHTML.dll) to work really well, with the URL property set to the animated gif path.

monkey

 

[craigsboyd]

monkey666,

I found your solution to be the best when I was trying to do this today (I'm adding a little eye candy to progress indication so user has something to look at when bar doesn't seem to be moving)...the only thing that I don't like is that GIF transparency is loss, but compared to the other solutions MARCHOScx/Web Browser/Timer & Animated GIF Splitter just to name a few, using the MS SCRIPLET control is hands-down the winner in my book. This was the first time that I really wished I was using VFP 8, but that will come soon enough. Anyways, heres a star and my thanks.

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