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Help! Animated gif-image in form does not show animation when form loaded
Folks,
Anybody knows how to add an animated gif image (e.g. my_anim_image.gif) to an Excel VBA form, such that when the form is displayed the user can see the animation??? I added an image control to my form and in the picture property I loaded an animated gif image, but so far it does not show the animation when the form is displayed. I am sure the gif image I have is animated because when I open it using the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" it shows the animation. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all who contribute to the answer JOCA |
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Help! Animated gif-image in form does not show animation when form loaded
The image control doesn't support animated gifs. Some have recommended
using a browser control. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "JoCa" wrote in message ... Folks, Anybody knows how to add an animated gif image (e.g. my_anim_image.gif) to an Excel VBA form, such that when the form is displayed the user can see the animation??? I added an image control to my form and in the picture property I loaded an animated gif image, but so far it does not show the animation when the form is displayed. I am sure the gif image I have is animated because when I open it using the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" it shows the animation. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all who contribute to the answer JOCA |
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Help! Animated gif-image in form does not show animation when
Tom,
Thanks for your suggestion. I Added the Microsoft WebBrowser control (C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHDOCVW.DLL) to my form but I dont see where can I specify the animated gif I want to use. There is no FileName, Picture, URL or other property that I recognize where I can specify the path and filename of the animated gif I want to use. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: The image control doesn't support animated gifs. Some have recommended using a browser control. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "JoCa" wrote in message ... Folks, Anybody knows how to add an animated gif image (e.g. my_anim_image.gif) to an Excel VBA form, such that when the form is displayed the user can see the animation??? I added an image control to my form and in the picture property I loaded an animated gif image, but so far it does not show the animation when the form is displayed. I am sure the gif image I have is animated because when I open it using the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" it shows the animation. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all who contribute to the answer JOCA |
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Help! Animated gif-image in form does not show animation when
Tom,
Thanks for your suggestion. I Added the Microsoft WebBrowser control (C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHDOCVW.DLL) to my form but I dont see where can I specify the animated gif I want to use. There is no FileName, Picture, URL or other property that I recognize where I can specify the path and filename of the animated gif I want to use. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: The image control doesn't support animated gifs. Some have recommended using a browser control. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "JoCa" wrote in message ... Folks, Anybody knows how to add an animated gif image (e.g. my_anim_image.gif) to an Excel VBA form, such that when the form is displayed the user can see the animation??? I added an image control to my form and in the picture property I loaded an animated gif image, but so far it does not show the animation when the form is displayed. I am sure the gif image I have is animated because when I open it using the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" it shows the animation. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all who contribute to the answer JOCA |
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Help! Animated gif-image in form does not show animation when
Guess I should have said Web Browser control. A sampling of some answers to
this question from the past: Hello, it' s really easy. Use the "Gif89 1.0"-Control. You can get it on http://www.schlotsoft.de/hauptseite.htm in the Corner "Für Programmierer - VB6/C++ - Controls". Before you can use it, you have to register this control with "regsvr32.exe" Have a nice day Peter from Tyrol, Austria --------------- From: Efstratios Malasiotis ) Subject: Animated gif in a userform or spreadsheet ??? View this article only Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.programming Date: 2000/06/18 Hi Jonco, I don't think that Excel itself can do this. You'll have to use a control (Microsoft, third-party, your own). For example you could use Microsoft Web Browser and use WebBrowser1.Navigate="anigif.gif". Not a good solution though. HTH Stratos ------------------- You can view animated gifs and URLs through a VBA dialog, just add a webb browser control to your form and use the navigate method to direct it to the URL or animated gif: With Me.WebBrowser1 .Navigate "d:\flame.gif" End With The browser control is contained in SHDOCVW.DLL (probably in your win\sys32 dir, if you have it installed) Regards, Andrew Baker. ------------------- Did you try: Add a Web Browser control to the form, then set it's contents to be the gif in code: Private Sub UserForm_Activate() webbrowser1.Navigate "file://c:/mydir/myfile.gif" End Sub -------------------------- Hi Tom You can not do that unless you use external components -like the webbrowser component. The resource overhead hardly makes it worth it -my 0.02 only. HTH. Best wishes Harald ---------------------- -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "JoCa" wrote in message ... Tom, Thanks for your suggestion. I Added the Microsoft WebBrowser control (C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHDOCVW.DLL) to my form but I don't see where can I specify the animated gif I want to use. There is no FileName, Picture, URL or other property that I recognize where I can specify the path and filename of the animated gif I want to use. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: The image control doesn't support animated gifs. Some have recommended using a browser control. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "JoCa" wrote in message ... Folks, Anybody knows how to add an animated gif image (e.g. my_anim_image.gif) to an Excel VBA form, such that when the form is displayed the user can see the animation??? I added an image control to my form and in the picture property I loaded an animated gif image, but so far it does not show the animation when the form is displayed. I am sure the gif image I have is animated because when I open it using the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" it shows the animation. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all who contribute to the answer JOCA |
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