>I am incorporating the MS animation control in my distributed
>application and am getting OLE errors "file not found". I have included the AVI file in my project and it works on my development machine, but when I build the exe and distribute, the AVI file is not being found. Do I need to put the AVI file on the users machine or on the network where they can get to it. I am trying to avoid this if possible just in case the AVI file inadvertently gets deleted.
>
>Here's the code I'm using (works on devp machine not on users)
>
>cFileName = SYS(1271, ThisForm)
>cfileName = SUBSTR(cFileName,1,RAT("screens\",cFileName ) -1)+'video\'
>cfilename = cFileName + 'findfile.avi'
>THISFORM.ocxavi.autoplay = .T.
>THISFORM.ocxavi.open(cfilename)
>
>
>The below code works fine on the users machine. I put the file on the network instead of using the included file in the project as the above code does.
>
>cfilename = "w:\mktgapp\findfile.avi"
>THISFORM.ocxavi.autoplay = .T.
>THISFORM.ocxavi.open(cfilename)
>
>Thanks.
>
>John.

I don't think activeX controls can find files that are in the EXE. VFP controls and programs can but not activeX. I have found this to be true with bitmaps used in a statusbar control. I think the Imagelist control also needs the bitmaps or icon files to be available. These should be packaged separately with you EXE.