I got this code from Calvin Hsia's site. It is supposed to NOT work unless the CLEAR RESOURCES line is used. But it works fine for me just the way it is. That's great, but I don't want to get blindsided if there is a problem using animated gifs in my VFP app. Any (relevant) thoughts welcome.

UPDATE: I used an animated gif on my form, but it is jerky and does not display well due to the processing going on while it is visible. Is there a way around this?

#define TESTGIF "d:\monster.gif"
TEXT TO ctemp noshow    && create a string with a few lines of code
      PUBLIC x as Form
      x=CREATEOBJECT("form")
      x.Visible=1
      x.addobject("img","image")    && add an image control and call it "img"
      x.img.picture=TESTGIF
      x.img.visible=1
ENDTEXT
STRTOFILE(ctemp,"temp.prg")   && save as a file on disk
BUILD PROJECT temp FROM temp  && build a project
MODIFY PROJECT temp nowait          && add the GIF to the project so it's embedded inside the target APP, EXE ,or DLL
_vfp.ActiveProject.Files.Add(TESTGIF)
_vfp.ActiveProject.Close
*CLEAR RESOURCES TESTGIF            && this line will fix the problem
BUILD APP temp FROM temp            && build the APP (or exe)
DO temp