Never mind - but for anyone that does encounter this, the answer is the image control does not seem to like to be transparant when displaying animated gifs...

>I am attempting to display an animated gif during intense processing (a select statement). Unless, I have a timer that fires a doevents or thisform.draw(), the animated gif remains static and is not animated during the query. However, when the doevents does animate the gif, the gif does not clear the original image, but leaves the ghost of all of its frames in place. What is the fix?