Animated Buttons
![AniButton.jpg](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/buttons/anibuttons/AniButton.jpg)
This class is a simple owner-draw CButton
class that allows you to play animation files (AVI's) within the button. This class can be used like any other owner drawn control - simply include the header file, and declare your button controls as CAniButton
instead of CButton
The class has the following methods:
BOOL Open( LPCTSTR lpszFileName ); // Open an AVI file using its filename BOOL Open( UINT nID ); // Open an AVI file using its resource ID void Play(); // Start playing the animation void Stop(); // Stop the animation void Close(); // Close the animation and free resources
To setup the button to play an animation, first add an AVI to your resources by editing the .rc file by hand and adding the following:
IDR_AVI1 AVI DISCARDABLE "res\\Animation.avi"
where Animation.avi is an AVI file in your /res directory (remember to define IDR_AVI1 in your resource.h file). Then, after creating the control (or in your dialogs OnInitDialog
function, add the following
m_Button.Open(IDR_AVI1); m_Button.Play();where m_Button is your animation button.