animated gif files

[Patrick Stubbin]

I am using the lebans animated gif activex control

when i put one in a form and try to display the form i get the following
error message
"there isnt enough free memory to update the diusplay. Close unneeded
programs and try again"

I have, and still the same problem
my sytem is a 3.2 gHz machine with 1 gig of ram

 

[Stephen Lebans]

Patrick that control is several years old and meant to be used on VB forms
not Access forms. There is an Access specific solution, which does not use
ActiveX controls, on my web site here:
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgif.htm

Please take amoment to read my standard post on the issue of using Animated
Gifs on Access forms.

The easiest method is to download a 3'rd party ActiveX control. For
performance reasons, its written in ATL and multithreaded, I like and
have used this one.
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/capacity/402/activex.html

For a listing of other controls have a look at:
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/gif.htm

For those situations where you do not want to use an ActiveX control or
just want to play a single Animated Gif as part of a splash screen there
is code on my site to do this in native Access VBA. No 3'rd party DLL's
required. The code is a bit dated now and does not include support for
Local Color tables that my latest version in VB6 does.
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm



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