Simple Animation in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)  Simple Animation
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Animation in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)  The basics:  You're
almost certainly used to placing controls on a form; however,
you probably have an expectation that they will stay in place
once you put them there.  That need not be the case, however. 
Controls have X & Y positions, and you can modify them at any
time during the runtime.  We can use this to create a simple
animation in a windows application -- let's say, for example, an
animal walking.    First, I'll need a two or more images of the
animal in different stages of walking.  (In the attached windows
application, I've used a couple images of cartoon sheep that I
hastily drew up -- forgive my lack of artistic abilities here.) 
The more images you use, the smoother the animations will be.
Everything else I need is already in Visual Basic. I'll create a
new Windows Application and place an image control at the
extreme right sid