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Animator/Windows
Message #37071
Grant, I am trying to develop a visual basic application to play Autodesk Animator FLI files in Windows. I have (I think) the latest version of AAPLAY.DLL. However, setting the fullscreen property to true and playing a 320×240 animation does not play it in full screen, just in a small…
Thanks, I will!
Phil, I tried the VBPlay program, and have learned many useful things from it. However, one problem I haven't figured out yet is this: The animations I'm running are 320x240x256 colors. Even though I set the animation control's fullscreen property to True, the animation is a small box in the…
Hi again, Randale: I've seen earlier versions of Grasp, but didn't know that there was anything here on Compuserve about it. Thanks! I've been having trouble with some Dos programs running shelled out from Windows (locking up the mouse, keyboard, etc.) but I may give Grasp a try anyway. Speed…
Phil, Thanks for all the information. I don't know how I missed the two refrences you mentioned… must just be the sheer volume of information! I'll post a message about whatever I find. Yes, I am using VB2 (it's MILES ahead of VB1) and also have inside lines to Microsoft…
Randale, Thanks for the information. Do you mean that the custom control from Autodesk supports both 320×240 and 640×480? And you can stop on a frame? I'll give them a call. I've worked on several versions of a patient operated bedside computer system, designed to reduce state anxiety by providing…
#Visual Basic Animator?
Message #36675
To All animator developers: I'm trying to develop a simple animator display program to run under Visual Basic (and, obviously, Windows). The idea is to have a full- screen flic file viewer, with three buttons on-screen: Quit, Pause, and Continue. This is for use in a larger bedside system by…
Yes, you can do lines, etc. in the Picture control. Just look up LINE in the help, and there is an example. Selden
Sound Blaster & VB?
Message #3504
Say, does anyone know where I can get information about programming for the Sound Blaster from Visual Basic? I'm doing a project for a cancer research center, and the program for the patients would be greatly enhanced by talking, music, sound effects, etc. coordinated with the graphics and text.
Hey, that just might work! I'll give it a try!
Neat trick! Thanks for the tip, I'll try it!
I tried Form1.Enabled = False, but the same thing happened. apparently, mouse clicks are queued up, and the queue is read AFTER the form is re-enabled! Bah! There is 1 Reply.
Getting back to GIF files for a minute, I looked in the Graphics Support forum, libraries. The only code I found for viewing GIF files was written in Power Basic, and I'm not too familiar with it. Strangely enough, Quick Basic accepted the program, and only found a few syntax…
Listbox BUG!!!
Message #1860
Here is what I consider a "bug" in Visual Basic. As long as you know about it, you can program around it easily enough. If you have a list box with an item selected, and you set the listindex property to -1 (to un-select the item), it generates a click…
#Disable User Input?
Message #1858
I'm trying to completely DISABLE user input while loading a new form. This is to prevent unwanted events when the user clicks more than once on a control. I've tried EnableWindow, but it seems to wait until the form is enabled, and then apply the click that happened 30 seconds…
Thanks for the tip. How does one find these windows API functions in all the mounds of documentation? There are 2 Replies.
#A NEW Shell Problem
Message #1795
Costas, This is a summary of what I've tried to do to terminate a shelled windows application: Here I start the program and get the window handle: x% = Shell(commandline$, 3) ShellWindowHWnd% = GetActiveWindow%() Here the user chooses Quit, and I try to kill the shelled program if it is…
Large-Font Textbox Bug?
Message #1793
Neat! Some of these things are obvious, and some are little gems buried in the documentation/help files. Thanks for the tip!
If I may chime in, Robert, one way is to make the immediate window visible, then click on it, and type something like PRINT X also, you can put Debug.print "X=";x in your program, and it will print the variable values into the immediate window. The main drawback here is…
I've noticed something similar with even smaller (i.e. 12 or 13.5 point) where the bottom bits of the characters were. The only fix I can think of is to clear the text box — not very elegant and also very slow if you do it on a character by character…
OK, in fact, I've tried about 5 methods now, and some work on SOME programs, others don't work at all, and some hang the system with some programs. I'll prepare a list of the methods i've tried and the results, and upload it in the next day or so. Then…
FreeModule… sounds promising! I'll try it right away! Thanks! — Selden There are 2 Replies.
Thanks again!
#A NEW Shell Problem
Message #1207
Help — Anyone! This is a different Shell problem I'm having. In my VB app, I use Shell to start other windows apps and also DOS apps. For the windows apps (like Reversi, Solitaire, etc.) sometimes the user gets the Shelled app into the background or iconizes it, then returns…
Hear Hear! Thanks for forwarding on the request, I'm sure many people have wanted the same thing. This forum seems to be packed with lots of high quality technical tidbits and helpful programming techniques. Keep up the good work! — Selden
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#GIF files
Message #1204
Really? Gee, and I've been a member here for about 5 years! Are they actual working source code examples? Thanks for the tip, I'll go take a look! There is 1 Reply.