Hi Nadya,

I'm having the same problem. In addition, the help file says:

If the animation control's BackStyle property is set to 0 - Transparent, the AVI clip will be played using a transparent background rather than the background color specified in the animation clip.

I've set BackStyle to 0 - Transparent but it does not work. Don't know what to do except hope Alexander can fix them.

Mike.

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm trying to use AnimationControl from Alexander Grigoriev CommCtrl.vcx from Download section here. I want to show sendmail avi in the status bar while I'm sending e-mails. I placed the control on the form and set property of AutoPlay to .t. and InStatusBar to .t. (in design-time)
>
>Here is my code:
>

>if type('thisform.oAnimation')<>"O"
>					thisform.newobject('oAnimation','AnimationControl','CommCtrl.vcx')
>				endif
>				with thisform.oAnimation
>					.AutoPlay = .t.
>					.InStatusBar = .t. && Display animation in Status Bar
>					lcAVIFile = addbs(justpath(fullpath('CommCtrl.vcx')))+'AVIs\SendMail.avi'
>					wait window transform(thisform.oAnimation.visible)
>					set step on
>					.open(m.lcAVIFile)
>					lnReturn = IDSEMail('Geiss','Wellcome new Filing Dates file',m.lcText)
>					*lnReturn = MailWithGroupWise('Geiss','Wellcome new Filing Dates file',m.lcText)
>					.close()
>				endwith

>
>However, it doesn't do anything and avi is not played in the status bar. What can I do?
>
>I have another animation class by Daniel Gramunt, but his class playes avi in the middle of the screen and not in the status bar...