>>>Anyone know how to use animated GIFs or shut on a VFP form. I've been using them on our test web pages and haven't come across a way to use them on a form.
>>>TIA
>>>Gary Cox
>> Create a webbrowser object (should be an available ole control if you have installed MSIE 3.0 or later) and then navigate to the animated gif.
>>
>>HTH
>That works -- but seems like alot of overhead. What I would like to do is similar to the flying paper during a W95 copy/move. Animation in that space. I have been successful in using the multimedia manage or the activex movie control for avi ,meg, etc but I would like to add some 'while things are happening in the background' other than the progress bar.
>Gary

If it is simple you could try overlaying some bmp files and use a timer to flash
through them.