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#207716 - 2013-09-10 01:48 PM GIF animation in KixForm
cleaner23 cleaner23 Just in Town Registered: 2008-11-05 Posts: 1	Hi i would like to include an animated GIF in my form1. It's a very basic logon script, nothing special. It just shows a form with a background pic and do the drive & printer mappings. As soon it shows form1 the GIF won't animate - it looks just static. the script will continue to process the other lines like drive mapping etc and then closes. Can someone give me may an code example how to show the gif animation while it continues to process the other script line? thanks in advance! BTW; i found somehting like: $Nul = Execute($Form1.DoEvents(1)) but i dont really know how tu use that.. Sorry for my non existing Kix Knowledge .... ;-( thanks! cleaner
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#207718 - 2013-09-10 03:12 PM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: cleaner23]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	Have a look under:- Advanced Scripting » KixForms - Animated GIF Regards, _________________________ Bill
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#207724 - 2013-09-12 04:13 PM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: cleaner23]
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	Hi, I would be surprised if kf can animate gifs ... but hey, surpise me, I'm not Shawn $;\)$ btw: .DoEvents(1) would be the correct way to not wait for events to happen but continue processing if nothing waits in the queue. But the safer use of it would be sample code: Code: break on $System = createobject('Kixtart.System') $form = $System.Form() ; do your declaration and definition stuff here $form.Show while $form.visible $ = execute($System.DoEvents(1)) ;<- note $System insteaad of $form loop ;continue with stuff even if form is closed Edited by Jochen (2013-09-12 04:15 PM) Edit Reason: forgot the execute :( _________________________
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#207726 - 2013-09-12 04:57 PM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: Jochen]
ShaneEP ShaneEP MM club member Registered: 2002-11-29 Posts: 2127 Loc: Tulsa, OK	You could also use one of the many online apps to split the animated gif into it's individual frames. Then use a timer to simply cycle through the images, which would give the illusion of an animated gif.
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#207739 - 2013-09-15 09:41 AM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: ShaneEP]
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	Hi Shane, ja, well, I'd do this not if I'd have to do a logon script (for performance's sake) But yeah, that would be the only way to make that happen. _________________________
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#207740 - 2013-09-15 02:32 PM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: Jochen]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4403 Loc: New Jersey	Hmm.. how long does it take to run the script that you have time to display a form and animate a GIF?? Not to mention the need for KixForms on every workstation.. My logon script typically completes in 3.4 seconds mapping 9 drives and 2 printers, and that's with performance logging enabled. I might spend more effort on performance tuning instead of techniques to entertain the user. Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#207752 - 2013-09-17 07:49 AM Re: GIF animation in KixForm [Re: Glenn Barnas]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11634 Loc: Space	Not tried but perhaps one could create a IE object and place it on IE to display ?
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