>I need to show an .avi animation file on one of my forms while a lengthy operation is being performed, so that the user will not think the machine has 'died'.
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>Is there an easy way to do this? The sample provided with VFP did not really provide any real help.
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>Thanks,
>Chris

The MS Animation ActiveX control does work fine as others have stated, but be careful of the size of AVI file you use. Stay small (up to 50kb), or you will likely get an OLE error.

HTH

John.