TAnimate fails in Delphi 2007 Win 32

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2 total messages Started by Bill Miller Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:25

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Author: Bill Miller
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:25

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TAnimate fails in Delphi 2007 Win 32.

The CommonAVI  aviFindFolder is shown in the ide in the control but when the 
app is run and TAnimate.Active is set to true it does not play?  I seem to 
remember that the common avi files are in a different unit than with 
previous version of Delphi, but I can not find where.

Regards,

Bill

Re: TAnimate fails in Delphi 2007 Win 32

#37

Author: Peter Below (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:39

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Bill Miller wrote:

> TAnimate fails in Delphi 2007 Win 32.
> 
> The CommonAVI  aviFindFolder is shown in the ide in the control but
> when the app is run and TAnimate.Active is set to true it does not
> play?  I seem to remember that the common avi files are in a
> different unit than with previous version of Delphi, but I can not
> find where.

The common AVIs are not present on Vista, MS simply removed them for
some reason. D2007 comes with a component named TShellResources (Win32
tab of the tool palette). If you add one (and only one!) to your
project, e.g. on the main form, the AVIs will get included as resources
with the program.

There is a second problem: if your program uses the theme support the
animation common control will no longer run the animations in a
secondary thread. That means that the animation will not run if your
main thread is busy working away in some lengthy code loop without
processing messages.

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