SB_SETBKCOLOR not working; Animated gif in dialog

[khemu]

Hi,

For some reason the following command is having no effect on the status bar :

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SendMessage hsb SB_SETBKCOLOR 0 0x00000000

I tried using the COLORREF format and the regular RGB format...No Effect

Any advice ?

[khemu]

Oh and another question....what is the easiest way to display an 'Animated Gif' in a dialog....(i know web is one :-)

??

[Gintaras]

Animated gif:
Animated gif in dialog

[khemu]

Thx G.

One followup question : The background of Gif control is black. Is there a way to change that to transparent or maybe white ?

[Gintaras]

That ActiveX control did not work well in QM. Now replaced.

[khemu]

Works Good now...

How can I include the .gif files or rather any other files as a resource ?? Since, I am just passing the file path as a string.

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ANIMATEDGIFLib.AnimatedGif g
g._getcontrol(han)
g.AnimatedGif=_s.expandpath("$desktop$\snake.gif")

[Gintaras]

Adding files to exe resources and extracting at run time

[khemu]

Works Great !

Thx