RE: how to show animation in a dialog

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From: Robert Burdick [eMVP] (RobertBurdickeMVP_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:37:03 -0800

The animated GIF functionality in PocketIE is probably implemeted in
imgdcmp.dll or some other internal library. Even if the functionality were
exported, it would probably take longer to figure that out and get it working
in your application than it would to try one of the easier solutions like the
thread / timer approach.

"Cassie Tsui" wrote:

> hi,
>
> thanks for your suggestion. in fact i also heard b4 that animated gif is not
> support, but it's strange that animated gif is work fine in my pocket IE. So
> what make it works? Maybe I can make use of that dll?
>
> Regards,
> Cassie
>
> "Robert Bur*** [eMVP]" wrote:
>
> > Animated GIFs aren't supported. You could build a timer / thread that flips
> > through the images you want to render. Not exactly pretty, but it would
> > work...
> >
> > "Cassie Tsui" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am development a pocket pc application using EVC and I want to show an
> > > animated gif in the dialog as a response to user. Would you tell me is the
> > > any way I can do that? If the gif is not support, is there any other format
> > > can be used? Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Cassie
> > >

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