image animation in GUI client area

[pistol350]

Sorry if the title of my subject is not very clear, not very explicit.

well, my purpose is to display an animation (rather bitmap animation) in the client area of my GUI application, WINDOW or DIALOG

I think that GDI use can be very useful, but i don't know where to start as i don't know how to implement animation using only API.
( this is not really a big deal as using google can surely bring fair results. )

By the way, the first idea that comes to my mind, as it seems to be the one i can easily and quickly write, is to create a screen as a child of my parent window/dialog and create the animation here using 2D commands

BUT, there might be a better solution, so, any suggestions ?

thanks.

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

I don't have an example but look into the animation control, it comes with Windows.  Someone here may have created one using ControlEx.

Paul.

[pistol350]

Hi Paul!

Do you mean Animation control as the work done by Bevets (R.I.P) for Ibasic pro ?

an example is attached below.

[LarryMc]

Yes, Bevets animation control is it.

It plays AVIs (which are a series of bitmaps).

Larry

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

The animation control is a common control, Bevets just wrapped it.

You can create the control with the ControlEx function.

You could also open a browser window, without a caption , and show an animated .gif as well.

Paul.

[LarryMc]

You can create the control with the ControlEx function.

That's what I'm in the process of doing in my Window/Dialog Designer.

Larry

[pistol350]

Thank you for all the infos.

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You could also open a browser window, without a caption , and show an animated .gif as well.
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Paul.

I know that solution and have sample codes of it,.
However, i may explore another way of having the same results using a single bitmap file that i will animate myself.

Thanks again for your help.