>Thanks Dragan,
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>This is a nice workaround, but let’s says the EXE application runs in a high security environment where users are not allowed to create files...
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>I've work with listview, treview and image list without that problem; they always look into the EXE for resources such as BMP, GIF and ICO.

You may extract the file from exe and save it in a temp directory (the one defined in your config.fpw), then delete it.

e.g. strtofile(filetostr('myAvi.AVI'),'c:\temp\TempAVI.AVI')

not tested.