A high level retained mode system which intentionally completely abstracts media and time using the functional language description based programming paradigm.

Part of Microsoft's direct media api, a member of the directx family.

This baby is somewhat of a surprise, a slick functional component architecture available on all borg desktops! -- SimonArmstrong

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Quote from http://www.activewin.com:

	 :	DirectAnimation provides unified, comprehensive support for animation, streaming, and integration of diverse media types, such as 2-D vector graphics, 3-D graphics, sprites, audio, and video. Because it is a COM API with an underlying engine/run time, DirectAnimation's functionality can be accessed by a wide variety of programmers and authors:

** HTML authors can animate their Web pages without any programming. The DirectAnimation is included as part of the IE4 minimum install
** Scripting authors using Microsoft?Visual Basic?Scripting Edition VBScript ) or JScript can utilize Dynamic HTML to create animated Web page properties.
** Programmers using Java, Visual Basic, and Microsoft?Visual C++? can develop ActiveX?controls or full applications with multimedia support and interactivity.

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Is it any good?

Please check out:
* http://www.p-richards.demon.co.uk/danim/danim_main.htm
* http://www.pcprogramming.com/
* http://www.microsoft.com/DirectX/dxm/help/da/c-frame.htm#default.htm

''I did a lot of work with DirectAnimation when I was at Microsoft back in 97-99.  My opinion, which was also shared by a lot of other people was that Direct Animation sucked, to put it bluntly. -- CurtisBartley''