Animation tool in VB.NET

[retkehing]

Is there any tool which could be used to design a motion or animation? For example, draw a line from one dot to another dot, showing the step by step.

 

[JohnH]

Animation is graphics, so I moved the thread to the Graphics forum.

Is DirectX the only answer? As of version 9 this has gotten easier to do in VB.Net (with a managed wrapper)
The lastest SDK download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1C8DC451-2DBE-4ECC-8C57-C52EEA50C20A&displaylang=en

Here a link that is often found in relevance: http://www.thezbuffer.com/

A quick search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=no&q=managed+directx&meta=

 

[vis781]

Amination in vb.net is quite resource intensive. For somthing as simple as what you described above i'd just create an animated .gif set it as the image property of a label with a transparent background and voila... Your animation happens with out having to add a single line of code.

 

[TwoWing]

Animation in vb.NET

Hi Retkehing. This little routine will give you a starter.
Start a new project. Put a label and a button on the Form. Place the label on the left of the form and in its Text property put a dash [-] and use font to make it a reasonable size. In the button's click event put this code in:-

Dim x As Integer
For x = 20 To 250
Label1.Left = x
Me.Update()
Threading.Thread.Sleep(5)
Next

Press F5 and go!
The number in the parentheses after Sleep is a 'delay' and can be changed to what you want.
I do test what I write in the Forum (as I just did so) and it works.

 

[^dark_c0de^]

This is good for making scroll line