Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application.

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UJ - 23 Feb 2006 19:33 GMT

What's the easiest way to play an animated gif in a windows forms
application?

TIA - Jeff.

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Tim Wilson - 23 Feb 2006 21:06 GMT

Use a PictureBox. Assign the gif to the Image property of a PictureBox
control.

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> What's the easiest way to play an animated gif in a windows forms
> application?
>
> TIA - Jeff.

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UJ - 23 Feb 2006 21:09 GMT

Thanks. I didn't think that would work. But I tried it and it works fine.

J.

> Use a PictureBox. Assign the gif to the Image property of a PictureBox
> control.
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>> TIA - Jeff.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 24 Feb 2006 00:18 GMT

"UJ" <fred@nowhere.com> schrieb:

> Thanks. I didn't think that would work. But I tried it and it works fine.

If it doesn't work for certain GIF files you could use the 'ImageAnimator'
class.

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