Hi

Is it possible to display animated GIF in DataGridViewCell?

It has to be repaint in order to update frame however I do not know how to force Paint method. Can anybody help me how to do it? There is no Invalidate method for the cell.'

Thanks

Ela

Painting an animated gif will only show its first frame. A datagridview paints the image to display it so showing an animated gif is not really possible. An animated gif will play in a picture box. When a cell goes into edit mode it shows a control for editing. Maybe you could create a custom column to display a picture box when the cell goes into edit mode and play the animated gif.

Hi

I did it - almost - a few minutes ago. I created my own column and cell class and I use ImageAnimator in order to animate image. The image blinks however instead of gif I see x as it was no defined gif. When I display this gif in Internet Explorer it blinking OK. My image is shown. Is there any trick in the grid?

For sure everything is OK with animated gif.

Hi

I have created my own DataGridViewImageCell class and I display and animate GIF in that. It doesn't display frames but only x. What is wrong. Can anybode help me?

I used such a piece of code

if (Animated)

{

if (!isAnimating)

{

if (ImageAnimator.CanAnimate(im))

ImageAnimator.Animate(im, new EventHandler(animate));

isAnimating = true;

}

ImageAnimator.UpdateFrames(im);

}

private void animate(object o, EventArgs e)

{

this.DataGridView.InvalidateCell(this);

}

Thanks

Ela