Access 2003 .gif file insertion - animation won't work

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Valerie

Help!
I am trying to install some animation on my switchboard. I have a .gif file
that I downloaded from microsoft that I have inserted (Insert picture then I
chose the file name). The picture shows up, but the animation part does not
work. I do have Microsoft Office Professional so by what I have researched
it should work.
 
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Douglas J Steele

To quote Stephen Lebans:

"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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Valerie

I downloaded the animatedgifplayer from your website. I don't know what to
do now. Sorry for not being smarter about this. I tryed to click on it
where it stored the files and it doesn't do anything. Help, please.
 
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Douglas J Steele

Well, that's Stephen's, not mine. It should have come with a sample database
that shows how to use the control.
 
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