Animation controls can display Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI) clips. An AVI clip is a series of bitmap frames that can be played like a movie. The clip can come from an uncompressed AVI file or from an AVI file compressed using run-length encoding (BI_RLE8). If you use an AVI file that has a sound channel, the sound is not played.
You might display an AVI clip to show the user that some activity is occurring while a lengthy operation such as a search or full build is completing. To specify which AVI clip to use, specify the AVI file name in the control’s AnimationName property. If you want the control to display only when an event in your application starts to play the application, set its Border and Visible properties to “false” and its Transparent property to “true”.
