Changing pictures and playing MIDI files

[larystoy]

Newbie to VB6, comfortable with HTML, MS Access so I ain't totally stupid. Maybe just dumb.

Am writing a Biblical Quiz program where I need to change a picture and midi sound file each time a user advances to a new question.

Have played with several routines but none seem to do what I want.

The following will show the first picture, on click shows the second picture, on the next click shows the third picture. Each click thereafter just rotates between pics 2 and 3. I have 9 pictures that need to be rotated or randomly sellected on each NEXT Question sellection.

This structure should do, but can not figure out how to change Picture2.Picture with either rotating or random method.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
 
'Description: Displays a two frame animation using a timer
'Place code in timer and set interval as needed
 
Static Choice As Integer
'Uses 3 picture boxes.
'Picture1 - visible display   Picture2&3 - pictures
If Choice Then
    Picture1.Picture = Picture2.Picture
Else
    Picture1.Picture = Picture3.Picture
End If
 
Choice = Not Choice
 
End Sub

Next stupid question - What does the "." do in a command ?

Also any URL's for good "Dummy - Dummy's for VB6"

At least I did get one function to work correctly, I have an animated dove that was too lazy to flap his wing when flying across the screen. Of course VB6 doesn't see animated GIF's, so got this one figured out by extracting the 15 individual GIF pictures and using the following routine he does fly across as I want him to do.

Option Explicit
 
Private Sub Timer3_Timer()
    picAnimate.Top = 1 'set location from top of screen
 
'Static variables keep there value with each procedure call
 Static currentpic As Integer
 
    'Determines if the animation is at the last picture and starts
    'at the beginning if so
    If currentpic = 14 Then currentpic = -1
 
    'moves to the next picture
    currentpic = currentpic + 1
 
    'moves the picture to the left
    picAnimate.Left = picAnimate.Left + 55 'orig setting 400
 
    'determines if image is off screen
    '-3600's causes a slight delay in the animation coming back around
    If (picAnimate.Left) > ScaleWidth Then picAnimate.Left = -1000 ' orig -3600
 
    'changes the image to the new image
    picAnimate.Picture = imgDove(currentpic).Picture
 
End Sub

Thanks for any assistance.

[Killer42]

...I have 9 pictures that need to be rotated or randomly sellected on each NEXT Question sellection.

Put the images into a control array of Image or Picturebox controls. Then use a random number as the index to pick them up from the array.

Next stupid question - What does the "." do in a command ?

Can you explain what you mean by that question?

You will encounter a lot of dots being used as delimiters between parts of a property or variable name. For example, Textbox1.Text refers to the Textbox1 control, Text property.[/quote]

Also any URL's for good "Dummy - Dummy's for VB6"

No idea.

At least I did get one function to work correctly, I have an animated dove that was too lazy to flap his wing when flying across the screen.

Yo umight check out the animation control, to see whether it's appropriate for your situation. I think you would need to convert the animation to AVI format, though.

And of course there are ways to get VB to display an animated GIF, though I can't remember them right now.