by Roger Gilchrist (50 Submissions)
Category: OLE/COM/DCOM/Active-X
Compatability: VB Script
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(7 Votes)
merry new year and a happy christmas to all at VBC.
Inspired by 'Singing Reindeer' by Chris Seelbach at xtCodeId=57776; any votes go to him.
No Screen shot (it's a surprise but check Chris's version for a hint)
I decided to developed a christmas tree using the ideas (and the graphic) in the original. In the process I realised there were some problems in the original (artifacts around the animated bits cleverly hidden by careful backgrounding). I thought I'd try to make a single super deer UserControl but couldn't extract the images from the original controls, so developed mouth and eye UserControls (using the images that I could extract and some screen captures) that are designed to be placed on the main usercontrols.
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Time presses so not much commentry but will develop it into a tutorial over the break as there is some quite trick stuff going on here.
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Thanks Tom Law for catching that I left out the sound files, check the file times, it was laaaaate.
Download Singing Reindeer Mk 2 (371 KB)
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