Print animation in statusbar

[Xancholy]

MS-Word has a little printing animation that runs in the statusStrip when a printout is fired.

How can I replicate that animation in a VB.Net statusStrip?

Thanks for any help.

 

[JohnH]

Set an animated Gif image as StatusLabel.Image.

 

[wakh]

But it won't animate I guess. To do that one would have to change image on intervals?

 

[vis781]

All .Net controls will happily animate a .gif without any code if you set it as the image property. For this you'll need a toolstrip status label and set the .gif as the image. Voila!

 

[wakh]

vis781: I tried it now and it throws out exception ("A generic error occurred in GDI+.") when compiling. I used a button with its image property pointing to a small gif file.

 

[vis781]

It works just fine here with any number of .gifs i've tried. That kind of error would point to another problem with what you are doing.

 

[wakh]

vis781: Strange mate, but I rebooted my computer and tried it again and Voila! it worked.

But before restart it wasn't working.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

vis781: Strange mate, but I rebooted my computer and tried it again and Voila! it worked.

But before restart it wasn't working.

It might be that windows updates has applied a patch to your ide or the framework (or both) that needed a windows restart to be fully applied.

 

[wakh]

JuggaloBrotha: That's possible.