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Rubes_sw · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: Animated Gifs

Anyone know how to display animated gifs on a VDS5 Dialog ?

vdsobj02.dll - Works great but only single frame GIFS (non animated)
vdselm.dll - Does not work in vds5

Any ideas?

Nathan

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:58 pm Post subject:

You might want to try displaying it in a Browser control. Animated GIF's aren't easy to work with.

CodeScript · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 3:04 am Post subject: Re: Animated Gifs

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

Hi Nathan,
You contacted me ealier today about animated gif's, however with Delphi 6 and above the crucial component needed isn't compatible and it doesn't display animated gifs correctly when compiled into a dll.

What I did was added AVI support in to vdsobj. You can get the new vdsobj here at vdsworld. There are tons of gif > avi converters on the internet as well. AVI really is the standard method of animations when it comes to Windows applications, that or bitmap slides (currently not implemented in vdsobj).

CodeScript - as to the vdselm, this is an early dll I created and later sold to SADE. This dll had gif, jpeg, emf, wmf support, a calendar, spin control, webbrowser and a few other controls. The dll isn't available on vdsworld because it's a registered users only download but it's no longer on the dialogscript.com site either.... I don't know if Commercial-Research is updating this dll or not but I'll ask and see what their response is.

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:35 am Post subject:

I think the browser DLL which is included with VDS 5 could do the same thing. Just load the GIF file into the element. If it isn't working, you can create a HTML file with the <img> tag to show the picture.... Wink

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Skit your probably right, since VDS 5 includes most of the VDSELM DLL, I dont think it will be updated or re-released.

And PK, adding AVI support to VDSOBJ is really a great idea. Thanks. Wink

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

Marty, maybe it is vdselm? Rolling Eyes

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I think it may be the same, I havent try the VDSELM commands with the Browser DLL that comes VDS 5....

Tommy · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:25 pm Post subject:

The VDSCIMG DLL supports animated GIFs. Unfortunately no update for VDS 5 yet.

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject: