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Displaying PNG, Animated GIF
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| john s. 2004-05-30, 5:30 pm |
| Hi.
Is there a good control out there to display png and animated gif files in vb 5/6? (I develop in both of them.)
It's fine if it costs less than $100, but free is always best.
thanks.
john s.
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| Gale Green 2004-05-30, 6:30 pm |
| On Sun, 30 May 2004 13:46:01 -0700, "john s."
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi.
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>Is there a good control out there to display png and animated gif files in vb 5/6? (I develop in both of them.)
>It's fine if it costs less than $100, but free is always best.
You can get the free PaintX ActiveX component from here:
http://www.paintlib.de/paintlib/
It acts just like a VB Picture object, but works on many formats,
including PNG. I use it for PNG, PCX and TIFF.
I have a recently-completed VB class module that decodes animated GIF
files and allows you to render them to a picture box. It fires an
event as each frame becomes available so that, for large files, the
client code can start displaying without waiting for the whole file to
be processed.
If you'd like a copy, send me an e-mail. There's a small front-end app
that shows how to use it. I have not bothered implementing GIF Plain
Text Extensions, mainly because I have never come across an animated
GIF that uses them.
Gale.
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