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dMw Chit Chat => The Beer Bar => Technology Section => Topic started by: Bunce on July 14, 2005, 11:28:25 PM

Title: Access 2003
Post by: Bunce on July 14, 2005, 11:28:25 PM
Does anyone know how i can put an animated GIF or an AVI into a form within access? (so it runs automatically too...)  :blink:

Bunce
Title: Access 2003
Post by: Gandalf on July 15, 2005, 08:50:20 AM
video, easy.

form toolbox, click more controls.

Down the bottom there is a control called Windows Media Player.

Add that to the form, open the properties for the object, select the all tab then click the ... by the custom field. This will open the properties box. In there you can choose the filename of the video clip and various other properties.

That should get you going :)
Title: Access 2003
Post by: Bunce on July 15, 2005, 10:09:41 AM
I'll set the scene...

Just making a database from work... but as i like my friendly and pretty  GUI's :)

I have made a animated gif from our company logo... would like it on the form's in bottom corner but dont know how to do this...

i made it in to an AVI also just because i could... and thought i'd try that method too... but its not really going to work...
Title: Access 2003
Post by: Gandalf on July 15, 2005, 10:13:01 AM
err, well as far as I know, you can't attach animated gifs. It's a database form front end not a web page :P

All the forms I've done here don't even have our logo on as they're used internally anyway.

Is it really needed for the database to function?
Title: Access 2003
Post by: Bunce on July 15, 2005, 10:46:38 AM
lol :)
course it isn't needed for the database function :) but i like to make it look nice :)

never mind :)

Thank you anyway :)
Title: Access 2003
Post by: OldBloke on July 15, 2005, 01:51:59 PM
So make a web frontend to your database. Have as many anims as you like then  ;)