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Sreedhar - 15 Sep 2006 18:40 GMT

Hi,

I *hate to, but, have to* do this for reasons beyond my control : pure
easthetics and no functionality.

I have a Company Logo that looks a lot like a coin. I've to flip it (i.e.
rotate) on the sign-on screen.

1) Can this be done through VBA ?

2) If not, are there any free tools that allow me to make an .avi file based
on this pic ?

Thanks for any help.

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Barry Gilbert - 15 Sep 2006 19:21 GMT

The simplest way is to create an animated gif. There are a number of tools
available to do this, some of which are shareware/freeware. I would start by
looking at tucows.com and download.com. Search for animated gif.

Barry

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Sreedhar - 16 Sep 2006 03:44 GMT

Thanks Barry,

I'll try my luck with Google and freeware tools available out there. But, I
feel Access should provide some basic Animation features.

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Douglas J. Steele - 16 Sep 2006 11:22 GMT

Our resident expert on Graphics and Access, Stephen Lebans, is on record as
saying the following:

"The easiest method is to download a 3'rd party ActiveX control. For
performance reasons, it's 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

You can also use the MS Web Browser control. Check the currently
installed ActiveX controls on your system.

Finally, 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.
Update coming soon..it's my next project.(I've been saying this for 6
months now!)
http://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm"

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Graham R Seach - 16 Sep 2006 05:59 GMT

There is an animation ActiveX control available. I don't recall whether it
is natively available, or whether you need to have previously installed VB6.

Open a form in design view, and select ActiveX control from the Insert menu.
Then select Microsoft Animation Control.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia
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