Does anyone have any code or suggestions for neat 'fades' between a
saeries of pictures in VB4? I presume that there's an easy way to
handle these, but can't find any documentation.

Thanks for the help

John M. Hughes

John M. Hughes asked:

Does anyone have any code or suggestions for neat 'fades'
between a
saeries of pictures in VB4? I presume that there's an easy way
to
handle these, but can't find any documentation.
 (end quote)

At the risk of sounding self-promoting, see "Building Multimedia
Applications in Visual Basic 4", Que Books, 1995. I wrote the
chapter on transitions and included one way to do fades. There
are no "easy" ways, other than buying a custom control and using
it. The alternative to my method is to use palette cycling, which
creates almost as many problems as it solves (and requires API
calls as well).

Scott Jarol's "Visual Basic Multimedia Adventure Set" provides
another way to do fades. Mansfield and Petroutsos, "Visual Basic
Power Toolkit", provide additional methods for interesting
transitions.

But you will learn far more if you just sit down and figure out
your own methods.

--
Bill Brandon
Accomplishment Technology Unlimited
Mesquite, Texas, USA