did you try using MCI (see the solutions app) Arnon ---- Date: éåí ùìéùé 22 àôøéì 1997 20:00 > >I'd like to add an AVI to a form as an OLE object. That >part is simple. However, what I'd like it to do is not, >and I'm hoping someone else has done this before and >can help me with it. > >I want the AVI to play continuously as a backgrounded >process. That means that the AVI bar (stop, play, pause >etc.) buttons should now show, and that the AVI should >continue to play even when the user is doing something >else on the form, like filling in a text box. > >So far, my experimental efforts have yielded the >information that I can issue a DoVerb("play") on the >OLE object, and the AVI will play, but as soon as I >click on another object, it stops playing. And I can't >get it to repeat, even if I leave everything else alone. > >Help? > >--Liz > >