using animiations in VB

[jimberger]

Hello all,

I am quiet new to VB, but i want to know if its possible to do animations. I want to produce an aninimation of a page turning in a book when the users click a button called next page. Is this easier to do in VB or should i be considering building the application in Flash?

thanks for thr advice / help

jim

 

[chtrips]

Good question you have to use a timer to activate the next picture... VB isnt the best application for long animation...

 

[strongm]

Have a look at VB's animation control. Although I suspect it won't be suitable for the interface metaphor that you are talking about.

 

[tbuch]

One of my students came up with a unique work-around. He created an animated .GIF and put a web-browser control on his form. He then loaded the animated .GIF into the browser control, which handled it quite well. May be sort of a round-about way of doing it, but it worked great.

tbuch

 

[strongm]

>May be sort of a round-about way of doing it

Not at all. This is one of the main techniques for displaying animated gifs in VB.

 

[chtrips]

If your going to do all that you might as well use Windows Media player to play the animation depending on the format... but this again is a round about way