AnimationForm ?

[Emrah Yigit]

Hello,

I want my Splash Screen appears like it's opacity value should be increased from 0 to 100. is there any way to do it with AnimationEngine Class or with AnimationForm ? Or you know another way do it ?

Thanks

[Mike]

Hi Emrah Yigit,

Animations related APIs of Telerik Presentation Framework are currently available for use only with RadObjects and  their corresponding RadProperties. Nevertheless, we implemented a functionality, similar to the one you need, available in our last release (Q1). Telerik..WinControls assembly, contains the class: SpashForm, from the namespace: VisualStyleBuilder.Design, that you can use to achieve the semi-transparent animated splash-screen. Here is a example for its usage, from our QuickStart application (Telerik Examples):

using VisualStyleBuilder.Design;

public partial class MainForm : ShapedForm
{
    private SplashForm splashForm;

    public MainForm()
    {
#if !DEBUG
        splashForm = new SplashForm();
        splashForm.BackgroundImage = Resources.splash;
        splashForm.Show();
#endif

        InitializeComponent();
        //... perform other initialization routines
    }

    private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //perform loading tasks ...

#if !DEBUG
        this.splashForm.Hide();
        this.splashForm.Dispose();
        this.splashForm = null;
#endif
    }
}

I also attached the source-code of SplashForm if you need to tune anything up.
Let us know if this works for you, or if you have any suggestion about how we can improve this feature.

Greetings,
Mike
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[Emrah Yigit]

only a word.... perfect

[bagher davoudi]

Kindly send Vb.net code for the same

[Nick]

Hello bagher davoudi,

You can use our C#, VB.NET converter here.

Sincerely yours,
Nick
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[Thomas Schuster]

Hi guys.

Just tried out your suggested solution and so far it works all fine.

But in my case, i'm trying to add an animated GIF in the Background.
Unfortunately my gif isnt moving :(

Created it with Photoshop and all kind of imageviewers will animate it right.

Is there any hint you can give to me?

Heres my code:

SplashForm f = new SplashForm();
            f.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile(@"C:\wait.gif");
            f.Show();
            doBinding("ALL");
            f.Hide();
            f.Dispose();

[Nick]

Hello Thomas Schuster,

Unfortunately, we do no support animated gif files as in web browsers. But as a customer you have access to our source code and you can modify the SplashForm class in the way you want e.g. instead of just changing the opacity of the form, you can change the image as well. As you can see from the source code, the implementation uses layered windows. You can download the source code from your account.

Do not hesitate to write me back if you have further questions.

Best wishes,
Nick
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